Nurses to strike Wednesday over bullying, staff shortages
Public nurses will go on strike on Wednesday from noon to 2pm at all general hospitals to protest incidents of violence against health professionals and...
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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....
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...
Taxpayers and patients the losers from nurses’ pay deal
By Stelios Orphanides A year ago, members of Pasyno, the union representing nurses at government hospitals, held a 15-day strike, to force the government upgrade...
Nurses to get higher entry-level wages, unions’ in-fighting (Update)
HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamborides announced on Friday that the government has granted state nurses their long-standing demand for higher entry-level wages to match their university...
Doctors, nurses complain of secrecy in NHS bills
Government doctors and nurses complained on Monday that they were being kept in the dark about two draft bills relating to the adoption of a...
Our View: Fuss over union chief’s arrest unjustified
Are union bosses above the law? This was the impression created after police arrested and charged the general secretary of nursing union Pasyno, Panayiotis Georgiou,...
Nurses give government two weeks to step up security
Nurses’ union Pasyno has given the government two weeks to find solutions to protect hospital personnel after a drunken man attacked staff and patients and...
Doctors and nurses call for staffing issues to be resolved before autonomy
Labour issues in the public health sector should be resolved before hospital autonomy comes into play, state doctors’ and nurse’s unions, Pasyki and Pasyno said on...
PASYNO backs nurses over on call stoppage
Nurses union PASYNO announced on Tuesday it backs the refusal of nurses at Paralimni and Paphos hospitals at the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy units to be...
Nurses say pay docking for strike included those who stayed at work
Less than a month after calling off a highly disruptive strike, nurses union PASYNO are warning of possible new industrial action. The March salaries of...
Nurses vote to return to work (Update)
WITH a majority vote, public sector nurses union PASYNO on Friday decided to rescind all strike measures and return to work the same evening. After...
Preliminary deal to end nurse strike (updated)
The government and public sector nurses on Thursday struck a preliminary deal to start a dialogue in a bid to resolve their differences and end...
President throws down gauntlet to striking nurses (Updated)
In a show of determination, President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday announced the outsourcing of nursing services in a bid to tackle the problems created by...
Nursing strike to remain in place for now
Striking nurses and the state managed to find some common ground on Monday but strike measures will remain in place for the time being pending...
Nurses to up strike measures on Monday
PASYNO nurses union has unanimously decided to recommend escalating measures leading up to a general meeting due to be held on Monday afternoon in Nicosia,...
Nurses protest outside parliament (updated)
As hundreds of striking nurses protested outside parliament and the presidential palace on Tuesday, demanding recognition of their qualifications, a meeting of union PASYNO’s leadership...
Strike forces ministry to open up private health sector to cut waiting lists (Update 5)
All patients on waiting lists for surgeries at state hospitals on or after March 15 will undergo the procedures in the private sector, following a...
If strike drags on, nurses may be ordered back to work
By Evie Andreou FIVE days into the indefinite strike of the PASYNO nurses’ union, government sources did not rule ordering strikers back to work out...
