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The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) will appoint an investigator to examine complaints that three patients were turned away from A&E departments, its chief said on Friday. Speaking to ...

Nurses union Pasyno on Sunday threatened to take legal measures against the ministry of health and the state health services Okypy after another member was attacked while treating a patient, ...

The state health services Okypy is doing everything possible to tackle the increasing number of children in hospital during the winter period, it said on Friday amid increasing unrest across ...

Unions on Friday accused state health services organisation (Okypy) of delaying talks to reach collective agreements with staff working at state hospitals. In a statement from all the labour unions: ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday that it will generate a small surplus next year, following an uptick in revenues – and insisted that the key objective of ...

“Dangerous medicine” is not being practiced at Paphos general hospital, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday after criticisms were levelled against it. “We categorically do not accept statements ...

Everybody would like to see modern, well-equipped public hospitals and medical centres which provide patients with a good standard of health care, without making them wait for a long time ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides on Tuesday asked Okypy to re-evaluate the requests of four medical professionals asking for flexibility at work so they are able to care for their children ...

Limassol hospital’s long-standing request for an MRI machine has finally come to fruition, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Tuesday at an event inaugurating the new equipment. Costing €2.4 million, the ...

Lawmakers on Thursday examined a timetable for the start of the expansion and renovation of the neonatal unit at Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia with one MP suggesting the ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday announced the creation of a special webpage dedicated to the accident and emergency departments of its hospitals. According to information, the aim ...

The health ministry and the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) have clashed over the timeframe in creating the much-needed A&E department at Makarios children’s hospital, which currently ...

State health organisation Okypy announced on Friday that from the coming weekend, September 3 and 4, it will staff on-call clinics for the first weekend of each month with pediatricians and personal ...

Appointments can be booked online with 750 doctors across all areas of specialisation via a short and simple process, state health organisation (Okypy) said on Tuesday. Accordingly, the digital transformation, the ...

A first responder was assaulted by a tourist early on Thursday morning prompting the state health services organisation (Okypy) to condemn the incident as totally unacceptable. A 24-year-old tourist has ...

Patients were experiencing serious delays in visits to outpatient clinics, the pharmacy and laboratories at Nicosia general hospital on Wednesday due to a technical problem with the telephone lines, which ...

The State Health Organisation (Okypy) appointed George Antoniou to the position of chief executive director of the Larnaca-Famagusta directorate, according to a statement released on Monday. “Antoniou’s appointment ensures ...

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 increase the number of beds, ...

AS if on cue and in line with predictions for anyone with eyes to see, the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday admitted that the June 2024 target for public ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday it was doing “everything humanly possible” for mental health patients, less than a week after Athalassa psychiatric hospital staff protested understaffing ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday suggested that the June 2024 target for public hospitals to attain financial autonomy may have to be pushed back, but critics countered that ...

The lax financial management of public health bodies came under scrutiny on Thursday, as highlighted in a report by the auditor-general on the administrative and financial autonomy of the state ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Thursday said a new meeting on the much-debated operations of weekend clinics is set to take place next Wednesday, after representatives of the health insurance ...

A meeting between representatives of the health insurance organisation (HIO), the Cyrpus medical association and the state health services (Okypy) is set to take place on Thursday at 9.30am after ...