Police investigating possible case of medical negligence
Police on Saturday said they are investigating possible medical negligence after a complaint was filed by the family of a 69-year-old woman who died in...
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Parents of baby who died in hospital filing negligence case
The parents of the 20-month-old baby boy who died in Makarios Hospital earlier this week, apparently from complications from influenza, are filing medical negligence charges....
Trial of doctors charged over death of boy delayed to May
The trial in Larnaca of two doctors charged in the death of a 10-year-old boy in May last year was adjourned on Tuesday because the...
Probe into possible negligence over girl’s death (Update 2)
Police on Wednesday said they were investigating the death earlier in the week of an eight-year-old girl at the Limassol general hospital, including possible medical...
Minister angered by doctors’ ban on talking to ministry director
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday he was unhappy over the leak to the media of a letter state doctors’ union Pasyki sent him...
Doctors say strike highlights impossible working conditions
The two-hour strike at state hospitals was staged to sensitise the government to the problems faced by the sector, doctors said on Wednesday, as they...
Doctors to protest arrest of medics over boy’s death (Update 3)
The situation in public hospitals cannot be used as an excuse for medical mistakes, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou charged on Monday, as state doctors’ union...
Remanded doctors failed to notice boy’s fatal skull injury (Updated)
Stavros Giorgallis, 10, died from a skull fracture, pathologist Marios Matsakis said on Saturday, following a post-mortem examination on the boy. Earlier, Larnaca district court...
Man awarded €640,000 in medical negligence case
The supreme court this week ruled in favour of a 46-year-old man, awarding him in total some €640,000 in compensation on the grounds of medical...
A son’s long fight for justice
By Annette Chrysostomou For taxi driver Tasos Lambrou, whose father was a victim of negligent medical treatment, justice has finally been done, but it has...
Surgeon ordered to pay up €200,000 in negligence case
A SURGEON was ordered by the Supreme Court to pay more than €200,000 to Limassol taxi driver Tasos Lambrou whose father suffered serious health problems...
Police probe doctors in medical negligence death
By Constantinos Psillides A CRIMINAL investigation is underway against four doctors regarding the death of 52-year old Xenia Cleanthous in 2009. Police said is looking...
