#pharmacy

Gesy beneficiaries will be able to use a barcode to collect prescriptions from pharmacies from Friday, removing the need to verbally provide personal details, the health insurance organisation (HIO) said ...

Repeated failures of the Gesy IT system this week have raised concern among healthcare providers, with the president of the pharmaceutical association warning that the state should have had a ...

Cyprus’ pharmacists on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the absurd opening hours, which forces all pharmacies to close between 1.30pm and 3pm every day except on Wednesdays and ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) on Friday instructed pharmacists to prioritise individuals affected by the Limassol wildfire who lost their prescriptions or medical consumables, following complaints that some had been ...

An online dispute broke out on Wednesday between Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis, and Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos. The argument began after Karousos criticised the operating hours of pharmacies ...

Pharmacists at Limassol General Hospital will stage a 48-hour strike on October 21 and 22 to protest having worked without a head pharmacist for the past four months. During the strike, employees ...

The administrative court on Thursday threw out a recourse filed by a number of pharmacies seeking to challenge a ministerial decree that regulates opening hours. In its verdict, the court ...

The pharmacies association last week threatened to tell its members not to open outside of regular working hours – night and public holidays – from next month, if the issue of opening ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

Pharmacists’ patience “has run out” over the issue of opening hours, pharmaceutical association chairman Ploutarchos Georgiades said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said his frustration is ...

The pharmaceutical council is set to hold an extraordinary meeting to find a solution to the threat of pharmacies to remain closed during nights and bank holidays, it emerged on ...

Pharmacies are threatening to shut on holidays and nights, it was reported on Wednesday, over issues that emerged with working hours and the failure of some pharmacies to meet the ...

State health services (Okypy) is to hire a new pharmacist to work at Limassol general hospital, it said on Tuesday. The new pharmacist will take up a full-time role and ...

Employees at the Limassol state hospital pharmacy on Tuesday announced a work stoppage this week to protest severe understaffing which has left the pharmacy unable to function effectively. Pharmacists from ...

The Cyprus pharmaceutical association (CPA) said on Saturday it “welcomes” the reintroduction of mandatory testing for Covid-19 to enter certain spaces. Health Minister Popi Kanari had said on Friday that “...

Police on Saturday said that a pharmacy in Paphos suffered damage to its facade and interior following an explosion that took place earlier this morning. According to Paphos police press ...

Frederick University on Monday announced the successful certification of its Department of Pharmacy by the higher education quality assurance and agency. In its announcement the university said its Department of ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela managed to stave off strike measures threatened by the pharmacies amid a row regarding compensation with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). The HIO, responsible for running ...

Officials denied that Cyprus is facing a shortage in key medicines such as antibiotics, amid reports of pharmacies running low. Elena Panayiotopoulou, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services, said on ...

A complete shortage of a blood thinner drug dose is recorded in Cyprus due to Brexit, with health officials urging patients to show solidarity and buy only what they need. ...

Parents angered over ministry’s refusal to accept them despite being on its own approved list Rapid saliva tests for coronavirus, an alternative to nasal rapid and PCR tests, have ...