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by **beders1** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:17 pm

Advice needed please i am moving to protaras on the 18th of april to start work just wondered were me and my family stand in terms of health care as we plan to stay permantley.

Also my mom and dad are planning to move over to be close to us but my mum is worried as she is prescribed medication as she suffers from fits and needs to take pills every day would she need to pay for them in cyprus.

many thanks
shaun

by **jambo** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:17 pm

I am sure your mother would need to pay for here pills..
but make sure you bring your NHS cards for free health cover..
Its also good to get private while you are here though..

by **CatSitter_Limassol** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:54 pm

If she has the NHS card for free prescriptions in UK, she can get the same in Cyprus.

I believe you have to go to the General Hospital in your location in Cyprus each time you need a prescription.

by **beders1** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:58 pm

Thankyou for your help much apreciated

by **twinkle** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:31 am

CatSitter_Limassol wrote:If she has the NHS card for free prescriptions in UK, she can get the same in Cyprus.

I believe you have to go to the General Hospital in your location in Cyprus each time you need a prescription.

My mother has been waiting for nearly 4 months for the paperwork to go through. She is a pensioner who can get free prescriptions here...yet....is having to pay for them until the Cypriot health service finally realises that Cyprus is in the EU. Thankfully she has private health as well. Private health care, I would say, is a necessity here.

by **CatSitter_Limassol** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:11 pm

Which part of Cyprus, Twinkle?

Friends here in Limassol got their paperwork very quickly just on production of the NHS exemption card.

by **twinkle** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:05 pm

I'm in Larnaca. She has retired but moved here over 10 years ago and wasn't getting any treatment in the UK since then.

by **CatSitter_Limassol** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:32 pm

Twinkle,

Maybe Larnaca hasn't quite caught up with fact that ex-pats are making their way here to stay permanently. Paphos seems to be more on the ball, with Limassol coming a close second but that could be because these are the areas where most Brits started to settle in the early days.

Hopefully, the legislation (and the paperwork) will make it to the Eastern side very soon.

by **andreaz** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:47 pm

Can anyone advice on the best private health care package to go for in Southern cyprus. At the moment we pay £200 per month in the UK for 2 adults & 2 kids.

by **Svetlana** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:04 am

I use Atlantic Insurance and pay around £480pa; much depends upon the level of cover and age.

Lana

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