Polis stages protest over lack of police and medical facilities
Polis Chrysochous municipality staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest the understaffing of the local police station and hospital following the death of a man...
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President briefed on problems in state hospitals (Update 2)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday was updated on the action plan of state health services organisation Okypy regarding the issues of staffing of state hospitals,...
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Eroglu hospitalised
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu has been admitted in intensive care after feeling ill on Monday while he was at home. Turkish Cypriot media...
Coronavirus: ‘Serious thrombotic episode’ in vaccinated woman (Updated)
A 39-year-old British woman in Cyprus is in the Nicosia general hospital after a serious thrombotic episode. The woman had been vaccinated previously with the...
Coronavirus: Number in hospital drops by 45 per cent
The number of hospitalised coronavirus patients has been cut by 45 per cent, falling from highs of about 300 to 167 currently, health officials said...
Four killed at German hospital, employee arrested
Police in Germany detained a 51-year-old hospital employee and opened a murder inquiry after four people were found dead and another seriously injured at a...
Coronavirus: Situation in hospitals critical, private sector could do ‘more to help’
The situation in state hospitals is critical, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday after record numbers in admissions of patients with Covid-19 were...
Cypriot in critical condition in Athens hospital after cobra bite
A 25-year-old Cypriot had been intubated in critical condition in an Athens hospital after he was bitten by a cobra, Greek media reported on Friday....
Coronavirus: Increase seen in hospital admissions
The past week has seen an increase in hospital admissions of coronavirus patients reflecting the surge in new cases, however officials are taking some comfort...
Greek doctors protest ‘suffocating’ conditions at Covid-19 clinics
Greek hospital doctors went on a day-long strike on Tuesday and dozens marched in Athens to protest “suffocating” conditions at hospitals on the frontline of...
Medical association awaiting outcome of legal case against doctor accused of sexual harassment (Updated)
The Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) said on Sunday it would await the outcome of legal proceedings concerning allegations of sexual harassment against a Nicosia doctor...
Israel’s Hadassah will accept vaccinated Cypriot patients with serious conditions
The Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem will accept patients with serious and life-threating medical conditions from Cyprus from February, provided they obtain a ‘green passport’,...
Coronavirus: alarm over spike in hospital admissions (Updated)
Amid growing alarm that the surge in hospital admissions of Covid-19 patients will push the health sector beyond its limits, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on...
Coronavirus: families raise questions over deaths classed as ‘Covid’
Hard questions are being raised by the families of three people declared by authorities as deceased from Covid-19 last week. These concern a 54-year-old woman...
Private doctors head calls for quality control in hospitals
Cyprus hospitals are in need of quality control and license revalidation procedures for doctors, president of the private doctors’ union Theodoros Potamitis told the Cyprus...
Coronavirus: State hospitals say they are ready for a second wave
Public hospitals are fully prepared to handle a possible second coronavirus wave, spokesman of state health services organisation Okypy Charalambos Charilaou said on Tuesday after...
Prominent lawyer proposes bicommunal Covid hospital at old Nicosia airport
A hospital in the abandoned Nicosia airport in the buffer zone, providing health care to Covid-19 patients from both sides of the divide, built with...
Coronavirus: Average age of cases in Cyprus 44.5, for patients 62
By June 30, a total of 998 Covid-19 cases and 26 deaths were reported in Cyprus, with a case fatality rate of 2.6 per cent,...
Patients’ group calls for overhaul of forensic medicine department
The Thalassemia Federation urged the government Friday to overhaul the forensic medicine department after it emerged that state pathologists refused to carry out post-mortems because...
Coronavirus: Outpatient departments open at hospitals (update 3)
The gradual reopening of outpatient clinics in public hospitals is expected to be completed in one or two days, spokesman of state health services organisation...
