Our View: High demand for MRI tests puts strain on health system
Diagnostics centres and medical labs affiliated to Gesy have been complaining because the unit price they are paid has been steadily falling. Phileleftheros reported that...
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Health minister calls for upgrade of Gesy in meeting with Edek leader
Health Minister Popi Kanari on Friday said that greater efforts must be promoted to upgrade the national health scheme Gesy. Speaking after a meeting with...
Health minister: aim is to tackle all weaknesses within Gesy
One of the biggest challenges in Gesy is clamping down on abuse in the system and ensuring quality services are offered to patients, Health Minister...
Christodoulides: We must continue to upgrade the national health scheme
The continuous upgrading of the national health scheme is necessary to provide the best quality health services, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. In his...
President meets with HIO chairman
President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday met with Stavros Michail, chairman of the health insurance organisation (HIO), where they discussed needed improvements to the national healthcare...
No more private health insurance for semi-public sector employees say lawmakers
Employees in the semi-public sector will no longer have the benefit of private health insurance, MPs have decided this week, citing the introduction of a...
Our View: Does everyone have to have a say in the running of Gesy?
WE doubt any other subject has been given as much time by the legislature’s committees as talking about Gesy and its related bodies, state medical...
Gesy is failing women
Shocking lack of access to and information about abortion and contraception In late June, millions of American women saw their constitutional right to abortion...
Gesy hospitals to have €52m upgrade
Hospitals and health centres registered in the national health scheme will be upgraded with 42 major development projects amounting to €52 million, state health services...
Is Gesy still mighty messy?
By Brian Lait Back in September 2019 when Gesy was in its infancy, I wrote an article entitled “Will messy Gesy clean up its act?”...
