Health Care in North Cyprus

I have written on this topic before but I feel it is necessary to be regularly visited. Here in North Cyprus, health care costs!!!!! Many of us are used to the NHS in the UK and many people ignore the simple fact that taking up permanent residence abroad is a wonderful thing until ill […]

Why are there so few tourists in the TRNC?

Perhaps the simple answer is that the government do not want foreigners in the country? Be they Turks, British, Martians or whatever, in fact they seem not to even want returning Turkish Cypriots. So what would happen to the country if it becomes insular and only the Turkish Cypriots who never left and the […]

Medikent Health Check in Lefkoşa, North Cyprus

Several months ago I went on the “Men’s Week” of medical checks organised by “Nurseawful” (Christine Offord). There was a full range of blood tests, x-rays, ultra sound, treadmill test, ECG plus several consultations with doctors. All the time supervised by the excellent Zalife who shepherded 3 of us through the day and because […]