December 5, 2024
animals, FEATURED, News
A prosecutor in Athens ordered the detention and the temporary hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital of the 47-year-old man who stabbed his 14-year-old dog who to death in Kypseli two days ago. Dog Ira was sick with cancer and had other health issues too due to her age. Prosecutor and …
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August 23, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An elderly tourist visiting Anavra in central Greece suffered a heart attack and died a few meters away from the rural clinic of the village because it was closed. Cynical ‘justification” by the Health Minister: It’s logical that clinics are closed over the weekend. The incident took place last Sunday, …
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August 16, 2023
FEATURED, Social
Dramatic developments in the case of the baby trafficking ring from a reproduction clinic in Chania, as couples from abroad arrived on Crete seeking to find out whether newborn babies delivered by surrogate mothers are their own. The couples had been had sought the help of the 73-year-old obstetrician who …
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August 11, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Steps will be taken to preserve the genetic material held in cryo-storage at the assisted reproduction clinic based in Chania on the island of Crete, head of the Hellenic Authority for Medically Assisted Reproduction Nikolaos Vrachnis said on Friday. Owner of the controversial clinic, medical and other personnel have been …
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August 9, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Nine persons accused of organizing illegal adoptions linked to an assisted reproduction clinic appeared before a public prosecutor in the city of Chania, Crete on Wednesday. Among the nine persons are a 73-year-old well-known gynecologist in Chania, doctors, clinic staff, a woman from Romania and two women from Georgia. Authorities …
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July 11, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Some 40 patients, among them a woman in labor and a patient on a surgery table, as well as staff members were evacuated when a fire broke out in a private clinic in Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. The Fire Service responded immediately and ambulances rushed to the clinic to transfer …
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November 17, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A cancer patient who got infected with Covid-19 in the oncology clinic of the University hospital in Larissa, central Greece, died Monday noon. The 53-year-old man needed hospitalization in the clinic where a total of 25 patients and health personnel were tested positive with the virus last week. The deceased, …
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August 2, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Managers and medical staff at the Taxiarchai clinic in Peristeri, western Athens, have been charged with criminal misconduct following the rapid spread of coronavirus among elderly patients at the facility in April. 13 of of the 35 infected patients in total died. Following a weeks-long investigation into the five clinic …
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April 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Thirteen dialysis patients, eleven health workers and four other patients were tested positive to coronavirus in a private clinic in Peristeri suburb of West Athens. One dialysis patient died on Wednesday, a second one late on Thursday. The clinic has been placed in quarantine. The mass infection has alerted Greece’s …
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