Cyprus

Cyprus has long been attracting overseas patients not only by excellent recreation and recovery possibilities but also by high quality medical and diagnostic services. The level of service keeps stride with European standards, and the prices remain affordable not just for the citizens of Western Europe but for CIS citizens as well.

For their overseas patients medical centres of Cyprus offer services in the sphere of orthopaedics and traumatology, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, reproductive technologies, plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine. Dental services and complex diagnostic are much demanded, too. 

The best general multi-field and specialised medical centres of Cyprus are located in Nicosia and Limassol. Their doors are open for overseas tourists all the year round. Clinics are facilitated with innovative technologies, state-of-the-art equipment for diagnostics, treatment, and laboratory examinations. Surgical treatment is conducted with cutting-edge mini-invasive and laparoscopic methods in the fields of child surgery, urology, gynaecology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and traumatology.

More and more family couples come to Cyprus for infertility treatment, including ART methods (IVF, ICSI, donation), and for delivery. Clinics are facilitated with maternity wards, operating theatres, intensive care units, comfortable wards for obstetric patients. Local specialists have vast experience in nursing newborn infants. Practically all medical centres employ English-speaking and Russian-speaking personnel.

Treatment and diagnostics can be very well combined with recreation and recovery at well-known resorts of Cyprus: Larnaca, Paphos, Ayia Napa, Protaras. Mild climate of Cyprus has unique anti-bacterial effects, for which reason the percent rate of complications and contagion after surgeries is minimised here.

Recommended time for treatment: October to May

Clinics:

• Euthymiades Audiology Centre

Cyprus is a uniquely beautiful island in the Mediterranean. All the year round, it entices visitors with the warmth of genial sunshine, the whisper of emerald-green leaves and the splashing of the azure sea. Not surprisingly, Cyprus is considered the birthplace of the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. This is why people from all over the world arrive here in search of youth, unfading beauty, and strong health.  For a number of decades in a row, Cyprus is one of the renowned international centres of recovery recreation, in particular, of luxury class.  

Practically all fields of recovery recreation and spa procedures are represented in Cyprus. However within the last few years, thalassotherapy has seen especially intensive been development. In Larnaca, Paphos, Limassol, Ayia Napa, Protaras, along magnificent wide beaches with fine golden sand and in secluded lagoons there are dozens of spa and thalassotherapy centres. Here overseas guests are offered to order a package of procedures or select an individual programme (restoring vital tonus, relaxation therapy, treatment of heaviness in feet and legs, weight control, anti-stress therapy, anti-cellulite therapy, programmes for young moms, beauty programmes, etc.). Each patient has a possibility to enjoy a full spectre of face and body care procedures, including massage with seaweed cream, aromatherapy, therapeutic gymnastics in water, wraps with seaweed and muds, applications with seaweed, hand lymphatic drainage lymphatic drainage, full body applications with essential oils under an electric blanket. It is recommended to undergo thalassotherapy courses several times a year for relieving stress and chronic fatigue, rejuvenation, for treating excessive weight and insomnia.        

Especially popular are aromatherapy sessions using plants and flowers thriving all over the island. Various kinds of orchids, poppies, pansy, tulips, saffron, iris, roses delight the eye, at the same time producing a favourable effect on human organism and even curing many diseases. Adonis flower is applied in Cyprus for nervous and psychic diseases, glaucoma, gastric ulcer, gastritis, kidney diseases, hydrops/swelling. Pansy is good for pneumonia, bronchitis, acute respiratory diseases, diathesis, allergic dermatitis, eczema, and diseases of the urinary tract.

After spending at least a week in Cyprus, along with getting a bronze tan you will strengthen immunity and replenish your vital forces.

Spa and Sanatoriums:

• Ayii Anargyri Natural Healing Spa

3*- from €70;

4*- from €90;

5*- from €120.

Hotels:

• GrandResort Hotel Limassol Cyprus

Lountza (smoked pork loin), sheftalia (ground pork sausage), lokum (Turkish delight).

Paphos (Pafos), Kykkos Monastery (Panagia tou Kykkou), Baths of Aphrodite, Hala Sultan Tekke (historic mosque).

Hiking tours in Troodos Mountains, International State Fair (late May), Nicosia Art Festival (early June).