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Health professionals will be offered incentives to help staff overstretched Covid-19 clinics at public hospitals, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday. Meanwhile non-coronavirus...
Nurses at Nicosia hospital stage one hour work stoppage (updated)
Nurses at Nicosia general hospital staged an unscheduled work stoppage early on Friday in protest at what they termed Okypy’s ‘authoritarian’ behaviour which they said...
Audit chief sounds alarm over Okypy deficits
Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday once again sounded the alarm over deficits of the state health services organisation (Okypy), prompting House watchdog committee president...
In farewell, Ioannou lauds Gesy, handling of pandemic
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday said he was proud Gesy was introduced during three-year term. While assessing his ministry’s work before leaving his post,...
Coronavirus: Covid wards slowly emptying
The state health services (Okypy) on Thursday said that hospital wards previously used for Covid-19 patients were slowly emptying, allowing them to return to their...
Coronavirus: Hospitals, already under strain, set to see numbers increase (Updated)
Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. By Monday night...
Coronavirus: New spike in hospital admissions
There has been a spike in the number of cases in Covid-19 state hospital wards all over Cyprus, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou...
Coronavirus: Reduction in numbers at state hospitals
There has been a reduction in the number of cases in Covid-19 state hospital wards all over Cyprus, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou...
Kidney patients threaten to refuse transfusions over poor state of hospital ward
Famagusta kidney patients warned on Monday they will refuse blood transfusions to protest the lack of staff and modern equipment in the haematology ward. “If...
Over 43,000 receive inpatient Gesy care so far
A total of 43,448 people received inpatient care through the general health scheme (Gesy) since its introduction, according to figures released by the Health Insurance...