Second nurses union warns over staff shortages at neonatal intensive care unit
A second nurses union on Sunday issued a warning over staffing conditions at the intensive care unit in Makarios hospital, saying it could have an...
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Further tests needed to establish cause of baby’s death
Specialised histological, genetic and other tests are expected to show a cause of death for one month old baby that died this week at the...
Understaffing at neonatal care units might have dangerous consequences, Pasyno warns
The neonatal intensive care unit at Makarios children’s hospital is at serious risk of overcrowding because of staff shortages, nurses’ union Pasyno warned on Saturday....
Baby with MIS-C symptoms intubated at Makarios Hospital
A 12-month-old baby who had symptoms of the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is linked with coronavirus, has been intubated in the intensive care...
Coronavirus: No complications for children, infant with virus, hospital says
The three small children with coronavirus including week-old newborn remain in good health, the assistant director of paediatrics at the Makarios Children’s Hospital Marianna Kousparou...
Mora Thavmata donates equipment for newborns at Makarios hospital
Mora Thavmata association has donated an €11,000 non-invasive respiratory support device for newborns to the Makarios children’s hospital. The new donation is the third new...
Coronavirus: Rise in hospital admissions for children
Doctors at Makarios children’s hospital have warned against complacency saying Covid admissions among younger age groups have risen with the potential of causing life-threatening complications....
Makarios hospital to have its own children’s A&E, neurology clinic
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday morning announced that €23.5 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan would be given to boost the Makarios hospital...
Coronavirus: Covid positive woman first to give birth in new room at Makarios hospital
A Covid-19 positive woman gave birth at Makarios Hospital on Sunday, the first natural birth in a specially designed room for coronavirus cases, State Health...
Coronavirus: Hospital creates special room for Covid-positive births
Makarios hospital has created a room suitable for Covid-positive mothers to give birth naturally, following a year of mandatory caesarean sections for pregnant women nationwide...
Coronavirus: two more children in Makarios hospital
Two more children aged four and seven have been transferred to the paediatric ward at Makarios hospital with coronavirus, director of the ward Avraam Elia...
Coronavirus: Covid-positive infant being treated at Makarios hospital
A 28-day-old baby diagnosed with Covid-19 is currently being treated at Makarios hospital in Nicosia, director of the paediatric ward Avraam Elia confirmed on Tuesday....
Cartoon characters gift sick child a tablet
Volunteers dressed as cartoon characters used the ladder of a fire-engine to give a present to a seven-year-old patient at the Makarios hospital on Tuesday,...
Eight eye patients infected during surgery face losing most of their sight
Eight people who became infected during eye surgery at the Apollonio private hospital will lose up to 80 per cent of their eyesight, the ophthalmologist...
Patients infected during cataract surgery in serious condition, probe underway (Update 2)
Apollonion private hospital on Sunday said it has followed all indicated procedures as regards the post-surgery complications eight of its patients who underwent cataract surgery...
Relief on its way for parents of sick children
No more sleeping on plastic chairs for parents of children who are in hospital The foundation stone of a building near Makarios hospital in Nicosia...
Boy who fell from fourth-floor window moved from ICU, headed for recovery
A four-year-old Russian boy who fell four floors from a Limassol building on Friday has been moved from ICU at Nicosia’s Makarios Hospital and is...
Boy who fell four floors in stable condition (Updated)
A four-year-old Russian boy was in a stable condition on Saturday doctors said, after he fell four floors from a Limassol building miraculously escaping death....
Post-mortem on 14-month old inconclusive
A post-mortem on Wednesday failed to determine the cause of death of a 14-month-old girl who fell in a private swimming pool in Paralimni last...
Toddler who fell into pool dies four days later
A 14-month old girl died on Tuesday, after being taken to Makarios Hospital in Nicosia last Friday following a fall into the pool of the...