Minister calls for dialogue as doctors, nurses strike (updated)
Doctors and nurses at state hospitals threatened to intensify strike action as they held a two-hour work stoppage on Tuesday demanding the state health services...
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State doctors and nurses to strike next week
Doctors and nurses at state hospitals have decided to go on a two-hour work stoppage next week, in a bid to exert pressure for having...
Ukrainian nurses will be able to register with the health ministry
Ukrainian midwives and nurses seeking asylum in Cyprus will be able to register with the health ministry for a position, an announcement from the ministry...
Neonatal nurses protest over understaffing at Makarios hospital (Updated)
Nursing staff at Makarios hospital’s Neonatal intensive care unit on Thursday demonstrated outside parliament over severe staffing shortages. The nurses, members of Pasyno union, complained...
Nurses to demonstrate for better neonatal unit
Nurses union Pasyno on Wednesday announced a protest outside parliament on Thursday morning to protest ongoing problems faced by the neonatal unit at Makarios hospital...
Covid surge causes strife, minister doesn’t rule out reinstating more measures (Update 2)
The upsurge in coronavirus cases in the past two weeks is creating strife in the health service as authorities scramble to reopen Covid wards and...
Union calls for action after nurse attacked in hospital (Update 3)
Three British women are under arrest following an alleged assault on a nurse at Paphos’ general hospital amid a wave of condemnations by nurses’ unions...
Hospital nurses want more money to work afternoons
Plans to keep state hospitals open in the afternoons suffered a setback after nursing unions turned down the state health services (Okypy) pay offer. Nurses’...
Nurses unions back ICU strike, warn of further measures (updated)
Hospitals are not understaffed, operator Okypy said on Monday after nurses unions backed their colleagues at Nicosia general hospital’s ICU for making an urgent call...
Coronavirus: Health minister seeking to increase jab coverage among nurses
Unvaccinated nurses will have the opportunity to attend seminars aimed at putting their minds at ease as regards any concerns they may have on getting...
