#hospital

The health minister met with top officials to set out a plan for ICU capacity while a second high dependency unit has been in operation at Famagusta Hospital to meet ...

The chairman of the Cyprus Respiratory Society expressed concern Tuesday over the high number of Covid patients in intensive care (ICU) and the possibility of the situation worsening with the ...

Hundreds of non-Gesy beneficiaries braved the heat to wait in line at walk-in vaccination centres on Friday as Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas urged members of the public who have yet ...

Booster shots for the anti-coronavirus vaccine are highly likely as Cyprus is considering following in the footsteps of other EU countries, with members of the advisory committee on coronavirus saying ...

By Stavros Nikolaou Though a large number of patients are presently in intensive care units (ICUs), the situation in state hospitals remains manageable, spokesperson for state health services organisation (Okypy), ...

Health authorities expressed concern on Wednesday over the increasing number of Covid admissions, which appeared to get out of hand, as people were forced to wait at home to be ...

The state health services (Okypy) is postponing all non-urgent operations in anticipation of a rise in hospital admissions as a result of the recent surge in coronavirus case, spokesman Charalambos ...

The state health services (Okypy) on Thursday said that hospital wards previously used for Covid-19 patients were slowly emptying, allowing them to return to their original use. Despite this, Famagusta ...

Despite difficulties and under extremely unfavourable conditions, we managed to fundamentally reform the health sector By Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou The general health system (Gesy) which has been hailed as ...

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 AstraZeneca vaccine. The health ministry ...

Hospitals have seen a significant improvement in the past few days, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. There are currently 150 coronavirus patients in hospitals, of whom 33 ...

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 on Friday. The good news is in line ...

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 clinic near Berlin. Police said ...

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 recorded in the last few ...

There has been a reduction in the number of cases in Covid-19 state hospital wards all over Cyprus, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Speaking to ...

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. The man, who was said ...

Some 208 coronavirus patients are currently in public hospitals, while another 800 are treated in state hospitals for other illnesses, with the result that more than 80 per cent of the beds are ...

Most of the elderly have been vaccinated, so why are so many in hospitals? Even with Cyprus poised to reopen a bit more, the situation in our hospitals due to ...

The average age of patients at Famagusta Covid hospital is 64, with the youngest one receiving treatment at the moment being 17, its director said Tuesday. On Monday there were 145 patients being ...

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 in the fact that the ...

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 the coronavirus pandemic. With around 6,000 ...

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 before taking its own appropriate ...

Did deputies, or anyone else for that matter, need Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides to inform them that public hospitals will not become viable by 2024, when the state financial support is scheduled ...

The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly managing the endeavour against Covid-19. ...