Limassol nurse forced to leave post after being ‘bullied by A&E visitors’
State nurses on Friday condemned bullying of a triage nurse by visitors to Limassol hospital’s accident and emergency department irked by delays in being examined...
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Nurses protest staff shortages and ‘bullying culture’ at Limassol hospital (Updated)
Understaffing is causing bullying and abuse at Limassol hospital, Pasyno, the union of the public nurses, alleged during a half-hour work stoppage on Monday morning....
Allegations made of sexual harassment at Nicosia general
Female workers at the Nicosia general hospital have threatened to deal in their own way with a colleague who they say is constantly making advances...
Nurses say time is running out to draw up Gesy contracts
The Organisation of State Health Services (Okypy) is lagging behind with the autonomisation of hospitals and other tasks necessary for implementing the National Health Scheme...
Medical association to meet Anastasiades, denies it’s behind ongoing rebellion
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades is to meet with the medical association (CyMA) next week as private rheumatologists and intensivists, following six other medical specialities, said on...
Man assaults ambulance crew called in to his rescue
Police on Thursday were investigating a case where the ambulance crew called in to assist a 42 year old man who had fainted after having...
Health ministry defends A&E staffing plans
The health ministry said on Tuesday that staffing issues at the accident and emergency departments (A&E) of state hospitals are improving, even though only seven...
Education minister called to apologise for ‘offensive’ comments
By Evie Andreou EDUCATION Minister, Costas Hambiaouris, found himself in the dog house on Saturday after both teachers and nurses lashed out on him for...
Nurses seek restoration of shift allowance
State nurses asked on Monday that their slashed shift allowances are fully restored after the cabinet decision last week to give €500 as a monthly allowance to doctors working...
Healthcare workers strike over security concerns (Updated)
The state will exhibit a zero-tolerance policy against people who attack medical staff, Health Minister Giorgos Pamborides said on Wednesday, as state nurses and...
State doctors to join nurse A&E strike (updated)
State doctors said they will join nurses in a two-hour strike on Wednesday, staged after an attack against two nurses at the Nicosia general hospital...
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...
Nurses threaten strike over chronic understaffing
State nurses’ unions threatened to strike on Monday unless the health ministry approves their demand for hiring staff to help cover more than 160 vacant...
Star signs drive C-section birth ‘explosion’
IMMATURE and demanding women are at least in part to blame for the abnormally high rate of caesarean-section births in Cyprus, because they want...
Pharmacists latest civil servant group to demand higher pay
After nurses and apparently now doctors too have been assured a pay rise, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on Tuesday said they too are seeking a...
Minister calls for ‘popular demand’ to help speed up health reforms
Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Sunday that though the procedures for the reform of the health sector were in the final stages, there were...
Fiscal watchdog concerned about deal with nurses
The chairman of the Fiscal Council, which consults the government on budget matters, said that he was concerned about pressure on public finances caused by...
Government, nurses sign pay upgrade deal (updated)
The government and public sector nurses on Tuesday signed a deal at the presidential palace that provides for a pay upgrade by aligning their salaries...
Pay demands snowball in wake of nurses’ deal
The deal between the government and the state hospitals’ nursing unions has sparked unrest among various other healthcare professional groups, who now demand to be...
Economy will not withstand a repeat of past mistakes, OEB says after nurses’ deal
The Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB) is deeply concerned about the pay hike granted to nurses, saying on Sunday it would open a Pandora’s box....
