Concern among MPs of ‘creeping’ two-tier Gesy
Opposition MPs on Thursday cautioned against what they said appear to be attempts to covertly introduce a multi-payer system into the national health scheme (Gesy)....
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Coronavirus: Economic lessons Cyprus should learn
This is the time to resolve and refocus rather than patch up the economy By Erol Riza There is an opportunity in adversity in every...
Coronavirus: over 3,000 healthcare workers tested, 902 negative so far
Out of 3,125 Covid-19 tests done on healthcare professionals to date, the 902 that have come back have been negative, the state health services organisation...
Private and public facilities essential to healthcare says minister
Health Minister Costantinos Ioannou on Tuesday stressed the importance of collaboration between private and public healthcare during his address at the opening of the new...
Hospital doctor drain set to get worse
Warnings have already been issued about the problems caused by hospital doctors leaving to set up as GPs under Gesy but the problems currently affecting...
Our View: Healthcare that is good enough for the masses really should be good enough for politicians too
We hope former President Demetris Christofias makes a speedy recovery. He has been offered the best possible care by the state medical services while on...
Expats’ healthcare cover in Cyprus to continue temporarily in a no-deal Brexit
Cyprus and Britain have agreed that British nationals on the island would continue to access the same healthcare cover they currently enjoy for several months...
Where will new health scheme leave your healthcare?
By Nadia Sawyer Mention Gesy (the National Health Scheme) to anyone currently working in the private health sector or health insurance sector and they run...
Working for the benefit of doctors and patients
By Annette Chysostomou The Pancyprian association of private hospitals was created in 2004, working to help both doctors and patients and currently represents 77 per...
Healthcare put to use to promote tourism to the island
By Nadia Sawyer Medical tourism to the island is being used as a way of expanding the tourist season, an idea that was first floated...
Private clinics: more to them than meets the eye
By Annette Chrysostomou A growing service sector over recent years, the private hospital/clinic sector has also been expanding in districts with smaller populations largely thanks...
Money back guarantee on IVF treatments
Genesis Centre for Fertility & Human Pre-Implantation Genetics is a dedicated fertility institution that has provided human reproduction treatments for over 25 years. It is...
Why private doctors have so little faith in Gesy
People and businesses will start making monthly contributions to the national health scheme (Gesy) fund from March next year with the aim that the first...
Using science to help people have a child
Scientific technology develops extremely fast and by following the flow of new techniques and applications that pop up in the IVF field daily up to...
Minimally invasive therapies without surgery
Interventional Radiology is a clinical sub-specialty of radiology that focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a large number of conditions by using minimally invasive techniques....
Break the cycle of long-term pain
Interview with Dr Periklis Zavrides How is the concept of pain defined? Does it involve subjective or objective elements? Or both? Today, the concept of...
Health minister’s bigger budget fails to impress
By Elias Hazou Lawmakers on Monday were singularly unimpressed with health minister Constantinos Ioannou’s boast that the ministry’s budget for 2019 was the largest in...
Health scheme on track, minister says
By Evie Andreou Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, on Thursday dismissed as nonsense, claims that state hospitals have collapsed but admitting that problems do exist but...
‘Chaotic healthcare policy is a mess’
By Elias Hazou THE state’s healthcare policy was on Thursday branded “chaotic” and “a mess,” by lawmakers, prompting an angry response from the health minister....
Cyprus ranks 26th globally in access to and quality of health services
By Annette Chrysostomou Cyprus is ranked 26th in the world in terms of access to health services and quality of health services, according to the...
