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Private hospitals send emergency cases elsewhere

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela is outraged at the news that two private hospitals turned away two emergency patients on Christmas Eve, claiming they had no doctors on duty due to the holidays.

29th December 2022

Cyprus

Ground control there’s a climate emergency

Not sure why the Presidential Elections are garnering so much interest at a time when the planet is overheating, and Europe sizzled under the hottest temperatures in recorded history. Climate change is

24th July 2022

Comment/Life & Society

Melco donates five fire emergency response vehicles

Melco, the operator of Cyprus Casinos, has donated and delivered five lightweight fire emergency response vehicles to communities affected by deadly wildfires that devasted Larnaca and Limassol’s rural areas in July 2021.

5th April 2022

Cyprus

Turkey blamed for migration ‘emergency’

Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration that Turkey deliberately stokes, said Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nouris told AFP, adding that 4.6% of

14th February 2022

Cyprus/World

Cyprus in ‘state of emergency’ over Syria migrant flows

Cyprus has warned Brussels it is in a state of emergency due to migrant streams from Syria while reception centres are overflowing, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Friday. The Cypriot minister said

21st May 2021

Cyprus/World

COVID19: Emergency meeting after cases surge

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou has called an emergency meeting Tuesday to consult with the COVID-19 scientific advisory committee after a sharp spike in daily cases from double-digits to over 300 infections. On

2nd March 2021

Cyprus

COVID19: Health emergency could become ‘unmanageable’

A spike in coronavirus cases is putting the health system under asphyxiating pressure with the situation threatening to get out of hand as hospital admissions rise. In a statement on Monday, Health

28th December 2020

Cyprus

Health services probe doctor who ignored emergency call

Cyprus state health services organisation (OKYPY) has launched a probe into an incident involving a doctor who reportedly took five hours to respond to an emergency after being called to Nicosia General

8th September 2020

Cyprus/Life & Society