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Cabinet backs blood strategy to boost donation and digitise services

The cabinet approved a National Blood Strategy on Wednesday to modernise Cyprus’s blood services, paving the way for a...
Local

Working at height main cause of workplace accidents, official says

Working at height is the most common cause of workplace accidents, a senior labour inspection official said after a...
Local

GHS providers who break the rules could be publicly named under new bill

Patients could soon see which General Healthcare System (GHS) providers have been convicted of offences or sanctioned for breaking...
World

France bans thousands of condoms at risk of bursting

France is recalling more condoms after its consumer watchdog said on Friday that a manufacturing defect made them more...
Economy

Public hospital staff hold firm on 48-hour strike over pay and appraisals

Unions representing public hospital staff are pressing ahead with a 48-hour strike on 10 and 11 November. The dispute...
Local

Revised university clinics bill fails to win over critics

The Health Ministry presented an amended bill on university clinics to parliament’s health committee on, but universities, doctors and...
Local

AKEL to vote against plan to hire non-EU nurses

AKEL said on Thursday it would not vote for Health Ministry plans to make it easier to hire nurses...
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Health problems limit more than half of Cyprus’s over-65s: WHO

Some 56.5 per cent of people aged 65 and over in Cyprus report health problems that limit their activities,...
Local

Patients treated abroad wait for advances as ministry cites workload

Health Ministry officials told parliament’s Labour Committee on Tuesday that implementing a government decision to pay patients an advance...
Local

Overnight pharmacies on Tuesday, October 27

These are the pharmacies that will operate during the night across Cyprus on Tuesday, October 27: Nicosia NameAddressAreaTelMargarita Antoniou16 Dimokratias Street....
World

Congo’s Ebola cases surpass 10,000 as fears grow of wider African spread

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen above 10,000, government data showed on...
Local

Delayed flu vaccines due as Europe sees early infection rise

Cyprus is expected to take delivery on Tuesday of 110,000 flu vaccine doses ordered by the Ministry of Health,...
Local

Cypriot women live to 85.6, but 47% lack exercise: WHO

Women in Cyprus have a life expectancy of 85.6 years, above the World Health Organization’s European Region average of...
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