Parliament to debate palliative care centres bill before year-end
The House health committee aims to send the bill for palliative care centres to the House plenary before the end of November, the committee’s chairman said on Thursday.
Disy ...
State doctors incensed by Okypy no-show at meeting on A&E units
Public sector doctors’ trade union Pasyki on Friday expressed fury at the fact that the state health services organisation (Okypy) had not sent a representative to Thursday’s House health ...
House agrees to amend doctor registration law
The House health committee on Thursday agreed that the law on the registration of doctors should be amended for those deciding to practice or further their education abroad.
Specifically, the ...
Vaping may lower youth IQ, MPs hear
Vaping is particularly harmful to young people and may be responsible for reduced IQs, the House health committee heard on Thursday, prompting MPs to pledge immediate action to curb the “...
Two centres for eating disorders in pipeline, House hears
Two centres for people with eating disorders are in the pipeline, the House health committee heard on Thursday.
The committee once again discussed the rising numbers of children and teenagers ...
Doctors ‘verbally attacked’ because patients are uninformed
Doctors and other Gesy service providers are “on the end of verbal attacks” because patients are uninformed, House health committee chairman Efthimios Diplaros said on Thuesday.
Speaking at the committee ...
Warehouse flood ruins €880,000 worth of medicines
By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou
Lawmakers heard on Thursday that a warehouse where medicines were being stored and which was recently flooded, was unfit for purpose – a fact known ...
Parliament urged to establish breastfeeding regulations
Regulations for breastfeeding need to be established by parliament soon, the House health committee urged on Thursday, following complaints that women were having their pay docked for taking breaks to ...
MPs push for e-governance in healthcare
MPs stressed the importance of enhancing e-governance in the healthcare sector during a discussion on the national e-health authority at the House health committee on Thursday.
Following the meeting, committee ...
Addiction authority budget boosted by €600,000
By Jean Christou
The budget of the Cyprus Addiction Treatment Authority has been increased by €600,000 for 2024 MPs heard on Thursday. However, some raised concerns that several addiction prevention programmes had ...
Govt’s U-turn on National Cancer Institute praised by MPs
MPs at the House health committee on Thursday expressed their satisfaction over the government’s U-turn to greenlight the creation of National Cancer Institute.
After weeks of wrangling, deputies heralded ...
Government ‘will be ready’ to implement prostate cancer screening programme next year
The government will be ready to implement a programme for prostate cancer screening in the first three months of next year, Dipa MP Michalis Giakoumi said on Thursday.
Giakoumi was ...
Hepatology clinic top of health committee agenda
The creation of an adult hepatology clinic was top of the agenda of the parliamentary health committee on Thursday.
A paediatric liver centre already exists, and thus the committee also ...
Lawmakers to seek higher fertility treatment subsidies
Lawmakers on Thursday said they will seek higher state subsidies for assisted reproduction, in a bid to encourage this form of gestation, as one in six couples were said to ...