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Cancer patients standing line in the cold, waiting for chemo (video)

November 24, 2022 FEATURED, Social, Society 3

Two to three hours before the oncology department of one of the biggest hospitals in Athens opens its gates at 7 a.m., cancer patients waiting for chemotherapy have already lined up outside, standing in the darkness before dawn, in the low November morning temperatures. Shocking and shameful suffering for …

Chemotherapy treatment “postponed” in big Athens hospital due to lack of funds

September 22, 2019 Social Comments Off on Chemotherapy treatment “postponed” in big Athens hospital due to lack of funds

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in Attiko Hospital in Athens were shocked to be informed that their treatment is postponed on indefinite time. The patients were informed by phone on Thursday. Hospital workers president and doctor at Attiko ICU, Mihalis Rizos, told news outlet documentonews.gr, that hospital employees learned form the …

Austrian NGO supplies Greek hospital with drugs & paramedic material for uninsured patients

July 31, 2013 Society Comments Off on Austrian NGO supplies Greek hospital with drugs & paramedic material for uninsured patients

Gauze, catheters, syringes, cotton, latex-gloves, but also drugs and medicine for cancer patients. Medical and paramedical material. A whole of 5 tons of aid has reached state hospital ELPIS. The humanitarian aid has the sole purpose to be used for patients without insurance. The aid has been sent to ELPIS …

Greek health care austerity: thugs’ games with the pain of the other

May 23, 2013 Society 1

That these issues are hardly mentioned by mainstream media, it does not mean that theses issues do not exist. Month in, month out, thousands of Greeks get confronted with the cuts in health care. Cuts occurring in subtle and crooked way. Every time an insured Greek goes to a doctor …

“Death Penalty” For Cancer Patients in Greece as Health Care Collapses

September 12, 2012 Society Comments Off on “Death Penalty” For Cancer Patients in Greece as Health Care Collapses

Cancer patients have reached the point of not being able to take their medication because they have no money to buy them as pharmacists protest the national health care organisation EOPYY and do not give prescription medicine on credit. At the same time hospitals postpone cancer surgeries due to retention of physicians. The huge …

Politicians Brawl Over the Body of the Greek Patient Struggling to Get Life-Saving Medicines

June 5, 2012 Economy, Society Comments Off on Politicians Brawl Over the Body of the Greek Patient Struggling to Get Life-Saving Medicines

The greatness of their insignificance show politicians fighting over the exhausted body of the Greek patient. The ball of responsibility is thrown in all directions. While patients struggle to find life-saving medicine, the Greek health sector has collapsed, the National Healthcare System (EOPPY) has difficulties to get important supplies, pharmacists do not hand …

Medicine Shortages: The Drag with the Greek Drugs

March 7, 2012 Society 7

Significant shortages in medications have been recorded in Greece. Cheap medicines but even expensive for cancer treatment seem to have disappeared from the shelves of public (state hospitals, IKA pharmacy) and private pharmacies. 243 “commercial” drugs out of 500 are just not available. In the majority, the shortages concern antibiotics, …

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