Healthcare workers hailed as ‘heroes’ for work during Covid
Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Thursday praised healthcare professionals in Cyprus for their dedication and hard work throughout the Covid pandemic, saying it was thanks...
Organisation of State Health Services (Okypy)
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...
Hospital staff only there to offer therapy Okypy says after convict escape
Hospital staff operate in a purely therapeutic capacity, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Tuesday, adding that nurses and doctors cannot be...
Hospitals under strain as patient admissions mount
The pulmonology and related wards at public hospitals are under immense strain due to the influx of admissions. Okypy’s spokesman Charalambos Charilaou told RIK on...
Outrage as patients reportedly tied to beds
Patient organisations expressed outrage on Tuesday over allegations that an elderly person was found tied to their hospital bed using bedsheets. Demanding the state health...
Nurses threaten to stage a walkout after latest incidents
Nurses union Pasyno and civil servants union Pasydy have called on the authorities to take measures following incidents involving aggressive behaviour against nurses at accident...
Polis Chrysochous hospital remains without inpatient ward
Polis Chrysochous hospital will get a day care ward counter to the demand of residents for the reoperation of the inpatient ward which closed during...
Afternoon outpatient clinics to operate as of today
Afternoon outpatient clinics will start operations as of Monday, following an agreement reached between the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) and the doctors’ and nurses’...
‘Quit smoking’ scheme has 50% success
More than half the smokers who took part in last year’s programme for quitting smoking, kicked the habit, said the state health services (Okypy). Okypy...
Gesy hospitals to have €52m upgrade
Hospitals and health centres registered in the national health scheme will be upgraded with 42 major development projects amounting to €52 million, state health services...
