Our View: Time for hospitals to operate for patients, not nurses
The way the nursing unions at public hospitals are using Covid-19 to push their demand for higher staffing levels is disgraceful, although not surprising. It...
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With US hospitals overrun, surgeon general urges Americans to ‘hold on’
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Tuesday pleaded with Americans to grasp “the severity of the moment” and remain vigilant against the coronavirus pandemic, as...
Coronavirus: cases set to continue numbering three digits in coming days
Cyprus will keep having three-digit numbers of cases in the upcoming days, according to Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Infection Prevention and Control at...
Coronavirus: health minister says hospitals at the ready for Covid patients
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said he was satisfied with the level of readiness in hospitals that are currently dealing with the coronavirus situation. There are...
Patients group says state doctors and hospital staff ‘doing whatever they want’
The patients’ association (Osak) on Friday described the treatment they receive from state hospital doctors ‘shameful’, a day after a house health committee heard that...
Public hospitals under strain
Larnaca general hospital is still having difficulty finding anaesthesiologists to cover the shifts, putting patients’ lives at risk, MPs heard on Thursday. Executive director for...
Coronavirus: Measures in hospitals to curb spread of virus
The health ministry on Wednesday issued instructions for measures to be taken at hospitals to curb the spread of Covid-19. At the entrances of the...
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)....
Private hospitals warm to Gesy
Almost all private hospitals have expressed an interest in joining Gesy, the General Manager of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Thursday....
Coronavirus: 173 of all confirmed cases have received hospital care, 135 now discharged
As of May 12, a total of 904 Covid-19 cases and 16 deaths were recorded in Cyprus, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin released Thursday....
Coronavirus: ombudswoman says wrong to exclude non-Covid fathers from labour wards
Fathers should be allowed into the delivery rooms during the birth of their children if they test negative for coronavirus, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides said...
Coronavirus: around 19 per cent of confirmed cases receive hospital care
As of May 5, 878 cases and 15 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the Republic, according to the latest weekly epidemiological bulletin released on...
Coronavirus: volunteers make 1,000 colourful masks to donate to hospitals
Around 1,000 different masks, with stars, dots, stripes and bright colours are expected to be delivered by Sunday to hospitals in Cyprus, all made by...
Coronavirus: Ioannou urges calm as doctors spar with Okypy over pay cut warning
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Tuesday a hospital official had crossed the line when he threatened staff with pay cuts if they did not follow...
Coronavirus: hospitals now being stretched to limit, doctors say
State doctors’ union (Pasyki) president Sotiris Koumas on Monday has urgently called on people to remain home as much as they can “as the hospitals’...
Coronavirus: health workers offered hotel stays close to hospitals
The minister of health has arranged for a number of healthcare workers who expressed interest in an alternative solution to staying at home, have been...
Coronavirus: new measures for Nicosia and Larnaca hospitals
The health services organisation (Okypy) has announced new measures for Nicosia and Larnaca general hospitals after an employee working at the cardiology unit in Nicosia...
Coronavirus: hospitals facing uphill battle to return to normal
State health services organisation Okypy on Friday announced special arrangements for state hospitals in a bid to better manage staff shortages and be able to...
Nicosia general hospital reopens outpatient clinics
Nicosia general hospital’s outpatient clinics reopened on Thursday apart from the cardiovascular departments after a 48-hour closure that followed one of its doctors testing positive...
Cancelled surgeries to be rescheduled, A&Es open
Surgeries that were cancelled due to the temporary suspension of the operations of the Nicosia and Limassol general hospitals after one cardiologist was tested positive...
