No handwritten prescriptions after May 15
A deadline of May 15 has been set for hospital dispensaries to process specialised drug prescriptions not registered in the Gesy online system.
Up until now doctors could issue these prescriptions ...
Cabinet approves Gesy amendment after ruling on prescriptions
A bill amending the law on Gesy was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet and is to be sent by the health ministry to parliament as ‘urgent’ for immediate voting.
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‘Doctors scared to write prescriptions in north, patients now paying the price’
Turkish Cypriot doctors said on Thursday they are now “scared to write prescriptions” as arrests continue in the ongoing fake prescription scandal.
The scandal has gripped the north in recent ...
Former north ‘PM’ Siber remanded in fake prescriptions scandal
Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber was remanded in custody for three days on Friday after having been arrested in the ongoing “fake prescriptions” scandal.
Siber, a doctor by ...
Two more arrests in north in ‘fake prescription’ scandal
Turkish Cypriot police arrested two more people on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing investigation into the “fake prescription scandal”.
The total number of arrests in the scandal now ...
Former ‘MP’ in the north arrested for forged medical prescriptions
Authorities in the north were on Tuesday clamping down on a prescription medicine scandal, after 26 bin bags with tablets were found in an abandoned building.
Reports from the north said ...