Proposed bill for doctor-to-patient app ready by October
A law proposal regulating the use of an app is to be prepared by October for patients to communicate directly with their doctors and have...
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Health service to start charging for excessive GP visits
The island’s state health services organisation (Okypy) announced that it would begin charging Gesy beneficiaries for excessive visits to family GPs and paediatricians, In its...
Patients say should be part of Gesy decision making
The federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) on Monday highlighted the need for patients to take part in the decision-making process as far as public...
Coronavirus: Federation of patients associations sets up ‘long Covid’ group
Saying an estimated 30,000 people in Cyprus suffer at least one long Covid symptom, the federation of patients associations announced the establishment of a group...
Coronavirus: 23% of Covid patients boosted, 3% double jabbed and 55% unvaxxed
Twenty-three per cent of hospitalised coronavirus patients have received a booster shot, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data covers hospitalisations recorded in the...
Gesy should be evaluated by an independent body, patients group say
An independent body should be brought in to evaluate the health system, the patients’ association said on Saturday, a day after an audit-office report alleged...
Patients falling through the cracks
Covid measures and other pressures on Gesy could result in medical access not being available when people need it most The death of a...
Dementia sufferers neglected by the state
A crucial government plan to improve treatment is still being assessed, leaving families and charities to cope as best they can Worldwide, dementia is...
President ‘determined’ to solve problems at hospitals (update 2)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday said he was determined to resolve the all the problems currently being faced in the operation of public hospitals. The...
Gesy: not perfect but far, far better than what we had before
Despite difficulties and under extremely unfavourable conditions, we managed to fundamentally reform the health sector By Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou The general health...
