Motorcyclist critical after road accident
A 23-year-old man is in critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital after the motorcycle he was riding was hit on Friday afternoon by a...
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Pamboridis says Nicosia ICU should be shut down if not up to scratch
By Angelos Anastasiou If the intensive care unit at the Nicosia General Hospital is not operating according to international standards, it should be closed down...
Excavations begin to recover missing persons remains near Nicosia hospital
By Angelos Anastasiou Excavation work to retrieve the remains of 31 victims of a bomb dropped during the first leg of the invasion of the...
Man dies four days after being shot in Napa
Four days after being shot in the head, 47-year-old Kyriacos Hadjisavvas died on Wednesday at Nicosia general hospital’s intensive care unit where he was being...
Nurses on two-hour strike over new attack at A&E (Updated)
Pasyno nurses’ union announced on Monday that its members would go on a two-hour work stoppage on Wednesday to protest over yet another attack...
Boat’s operator had been steering during crash, police told
The operator was at all times at the helm of the speedboat which crashed into rocks off Latchi on Monday night, killing one woman and...
A story to counter the cynics
By Ajay Goyal On her third day of work, the girl left for home, rested on the nearby beach, got on her bike and collapsed....
Third person dies from heatstroke, hike in calls to ambulance service
A 71-year-old woman is the third person to die the last few days from heatstroke, it was reported on Wednesday. The woman who was suffering...
Corrupted doctor a shame to his profession, court says (Updated)
The Nicosia Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced the head of the capital’s general hospital’s ear, nose, and throat clinic, Yiannakis Kyamides, 61, to two and...
Criminal and administrative probes after run-in between trans woman and hospital admin
Criminal and administrative probes are underway following the report by a trans woman that she was verbally and physically assaulted by a state hospital employee...
Visiting professors added to UCy medical school
DEFYING the ongoing controversy with state doctors over transforming the state general hospital into a university hospital, the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced that seven...
Top hospital official pleads not guilty in bribery case
Nicosia general hospital executive director and chief of the ear, nose and throat (ENT) clinic Yiannakis Kyamides on Monday pleaded not guilty to 188 counts...
Free oral cancer checks on Thursday
More than 470 new cases of oral cancer were recorded over a 15 year period, the state health services said on Tuesday, as they launched...
‘Quality care for all women’
By Annette Chrysostomou THE survival rates of women with breast cancer treated in a proper breast clinic are 30 per cent higher than...
Traffic accident injury
A 19-year-old male was seriously injured on Saturday after a car he was travelling in crashed into the iron railings of a pedestrian crossing near...
Contract doctor at Nicosia general arrested in ongoing health sector probe
Police on Monday arrested a contract neurosurgeon at Nicosia general hospital in connection with 10 alleged bribery related offences that took place in February this...
Letter to the Director General, Nicosia General Hospital
Dear Mr. Ioannis Kyamides My husband recently had successful heart surgery at your hospital. We both wanted to thank you and all your staff for...
Wasted incinerator funds to be discussed in House
An incinerator at Nicosia general hospital which has sat idle for 13 years while hospital waste management costs spiral will be discussed at the House...
Man says elderly mother died waiting 10 hours for doctor
An 87-year-old woman with a fractured femur died at the Nicosia general hospital after 10 hours of waiting for an orthopaedic doctor to tend to...
Cyprus lacks a hunger for excellence
By Hermes Solomon IN BED with flu and staring through the window, dolefully contemplating clothes pegs on the washing line resembling hung out to dry...