Nurses set to strike next Wednesday due to delay in new hirings
Nurses in public hospitals island wide are set to strike on Wednesday over understaffing while doctors on Friday demanded further clarifications before they accept a...
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Nurses forge agreement with Okypy, withdraw threat to strike
The state health services organisation (Okypy) will hire about 100 health professionals this month to cover staff shortages, it emerged on Friday, while more recruitments...
Coronavirus: state nurses union pleads with public to stay home
State nurses’ union Pasyno on Friday in its Easter message urged people to strictly follow measures against the spread of coronavirus to help them overcome...
Coronavirus: Ioannou urges calm as doctors spar with Okypy over pay cut warning
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Tuesday a hospital official had crossed the line when he threatened staff with pay cuts if they did not follow...
Coronavirus: Paphos nurses concerned over tests (Update)
Nurses at Paphos hospital on Tuesday expressed concern over the fact that not all of them were tested for coronavirus after their colleagues and one...
Plans for new psychiatric hospital to be submitted in the coming days
The ministry of health on Thursday responded to allegations made by state nurses’ union Pasyno regarding the ‘third-world working conditions’ at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital....
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...
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...
