Organizations
Nicosia General Hospital
Description
Nicosia General Hospital is the only quaternary care hospital and flagship of our country’s healthcare system. It stands as the largest hospital in Cyprus, both in terms of infrastructure and number of cases served. It belongs to the network of hospitals of the State Health Services Organization, which includes 7 other hospitals that provide comprehensive healthcare coverage to the population across free Cyprus.
The Hospital has an operating capacity of 456 inpatient beds, 36 day care beds and 56 dialysis beds, 12 operating rooms and an Accident and Emergency Department (A&E). The hospital’s personnel comprise 217 physicians specialising in over 30 medical fields, 16 University physicians and 1009 nursing officers. Annually, the hospital serves over 160,000 inpatient and outpatient cases and attends to approximately 55,000 cases in the A&E Department, effectively managing any incident, being either a routine case or a challenging and complex condition.
Nicosia General Hospital takes pride in being the only healthcare provider in Cyprus offering specific specialised medical services. These services are provided through various departments, such as the Department of Interventional Radiology, the Transplant Clinic, the Intensive Care Unit, the Skull Base Surgery Centre, the reference Centre for Cochlear and Other Acoustic Implants, the Centre for Spinal Disorders, the Specialised Breast Centre of the Surgery Clinic, the University Neurology Clinic and the unique in Cyprus Centre for Trauma.