September 4, 2024
Society, Very Mix
Police arrested a doctor and his wife accusing them of starting six to eight fires in Nea Marki seaside resort in eastern Attica. The teenager son of the wife is being sought by police as accomplice. It was initially the 61-year-old orthopedic doctor and his 50 year-old who were arrested …
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August 3, 2023
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
New infections cases of Covid-19 over the week of July 24-30 were up compared to the previous week, according to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organisation (EODY), published on Thursday. At the same time, the Hospital Doctors Federation urges the unconditional return of mandatory use masks in …
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June 14, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 58-year-old pathologist specializing in the treatment of diabetes and a 48-year-old nurse at a public health center in Agrinio city in western Greece have been arrested for prescription medication fraud estimated to have cost the state more than 120,000 euros. Among the many charges against them is that of …
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January 20, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A bogus doctor in Greece and his accomplice, a doctor in Germany, have been tricking patients with Multiple Sclerosis convincing them to stop their medication for his alleged “groundbreaking” treatment with fake stem cells injections that were consisting of pure water. Five patients have died. The criminal duet has collected …
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November 17, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
One of the biggest sentences in the Greek judicial system was imposed to the “quack doctor” responsible for the death of seven cancer patients. The Mixed Jury Court in Athens sentenced 50-year-old Nikolaos Kontostathis to 8 times life, 50 years imprisonment and 327,000 euro fine. The sentences cover the charges …
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July 30, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The Athens Medical Association has called anti-vaxxer doctor Faidon Vovolis to the disciplinary board next week. The activist against vaccines is at risk of losing his medical license, media report on Friday. President of the Association Giorgos Patoulis told cnngreece, “any doctor who creates problems to vaccinations program and to …
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July 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A doctor at a public hospital is being accused of organizing bogus vaccinations to anti-vaxxers to facilitate them obtaining vaccination certificates. The unprecedented incident took place at Asklipieio Hospital in Voula, southern Athens on Sunday, the hospital workers union POEDIN revealed on Thursday. According to the report, the doctor, an …
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September 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A doctor at the Ippokatio hospital in Athens has challenged deniers of masks and Covid-19. He invited them to accompany him during the emergency duty of the public hospital under one condition: that they will not wear a mask or any other protective gear and they also sign a relevant …
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August 26, 2020
Lifestyle
Deputy mayor of Thessaloniki Haris Aidonopoulos underwent a xematiasma procedure during a teleconference of the Municipal Council on Monday. While his assistant was mumbling the spell against the evil eye thus making the sign of the cross over the face of the troubled man, the conference camera was on, recording …
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August 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A 27-year-old doctor was intubated in the university hospital of Larissa, central Greece, late on Tuesday. The doctor, an intern at the Surgery Department of the same hospital, most likely contracted the coronavirus during vacations in Halkidiki, northern Greece. Local media report that she developed the first symptoms after she …
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July 10, 2019
Tourism
Finally a doctor has been assigned to the archaeological site of Acropolis in Athens. The assignment is the first act by new Culture & Sports Minister Lina Mendoni and thus at a time when a heat wave is striking the Greek capital. Mendoni. The appointment was possible with just a …
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April 7, 2019
Very Mix
Dr Anargiros Mariolis, director of the Areopoli Health Center in Mani, is the winner of the WONCA Europe Award of Excellence in Health Care for 2019. The 5-Star Doctor is an award to doctors, who in the opinion of the WONCA Council, have made a significant impact on the health …
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February 2, 2019
Social
A chief surgeon at a big hospital in Athens was arrested on Friday, after a cancer patient filed a complaint to police that the doctor had extorted a total of 3,000 euros. The 50-year-old doctor is well-known in Athens and is working at the Ippokrateio Public Hospital. During a police …
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September 5, 2018
Very Mix
This could possibly be a case of “filotimo” the Greek word that cannot be translated in other languages. A doctor admitted to have forged a disability certification for a convict to be released from prison. However, he denied that he received any bribe in order to do so. In a …
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February 16, 2018
Very Mix
For whole seventeen years he has been examining patients, diagnosing illness and ailments and prescribing medicine and therapies. He had been appointed to the public General Hospital of Kavala, Northern Greece, in 2001. He was supposed to have been a general practitioner. Now he has been fired. Authorities found out …
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October 25, 2017
Social
Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas raided the office of a clinic director in Public Hospital Evaggelismos in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Accusing him of taking money under the hand (fakelaki) by patients, they threatened him they “would cut his hand off” if he would do it again. In a …
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July 16, 2014
Society
An in-depth investigation has been launched into the death of a public hospital patient who accused a heart surgeon of demanding bride for a life-saving surgery. The 67-year-old man died on Monday after an open heart surgery performed by another surgeon. However the quadruple bypass was apparently much too late …
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June 13, 2014
Society
Furious parents of a girl with chronic disability have reportedly beaten an IKA doctor in Patras because he refused to prescribe a special nutrition food for the bed-ridden child. The doctor was just following the guidelines of the Troika and the austerity Health ministers and the electronic prescription system that …
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July 16, 2012
Society
The thriller that started early on Monday morning shocking local community of Lamia found a tragic end. A 64-year-old radiologist jumped from the fifth floor and died in front of the eyes of his wife and his daughter, rescue teams and bystanders who watched the incident holding their breath. For two …
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