February 21, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Doctors are describing a desperate situation at healthcare facilities in Attica that are part of the National Health System (ESY) and are calling for staff recruitment, increased funding and pay reviews. At a press conference held on Monday, the Athens-Piraeus Hospital Doctors’ Association (EINAP) spoke of long waiting hours for …
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December 21, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Doctors and nursing staff returning to work after being suspended for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 will not be allowed in intensive care units and cancer wards, according to proposals by the Health Ministry’s committee of experts explained in Parliament on Wednesday. Both doctors and support staff are returning …
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December 1, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Hundreds of doctor and nurses gathered outside the Parliament on Thursday to protest the bill that privatizes a large part of services of secondary health care in the public hospitals in the country. The Federations of workers in public hospitals POEDIN demanded the immediate withdrawal of the “monster” bill, as …
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November 24, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A regulation pushed by deputy health minister Mina Gaga jeopardizes patients’ access to free of charge treatment and surgeries in Greece’s public hospitals. According to the regulation, full-time doctors exclusively working in public hospitals of ESY will be allowed to offer their services also to private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic and …
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October 26, 2022
Very Mix
Over 20,000 doctors have left Greece in the last decade, and each one’s education cost the state and their families nearly 350,000 euros, Athens Medical Association president and Attica Region director Giorgos Patoulis said on Tuesday. In an address to the 2nd congress on “Health above all” (Ygeia pano ap’ …
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April 7, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A new digital system where citizens can seek appointments for primary health care facilities and doctors was launched on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has said. Through the platform finddoctors.gov.gr, people will be able to book an appointment in either a public facility or with a …
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January 13, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The Greek Health Ministry began with the requisition the services of pathologists, lung specialists and general practitioners of northern Greece in order to strengthen the national health system in the face of the pandemic. A total of 90 doctors have been called to provide their services to hospitals treating Covid-19 …
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December 13, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Greece, Politics
Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced that the Ministry will hire 4,000 nurses and 910 doctors to strengthen the Greek health care system. The Minister made the announcement during a visit of the new health center in Patras, wester Peloponnese on Sunday. He said that the pandemic is at its peak, …
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December 12, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Thirteen people, most of them sales representatives and executives of a pharmaceutical company, have been arrested on suspicion of bribing doctors and illegally prescribing medicines. Sources told the state-run news agency amna on Friday, that police moved in after a months-long investigation that also involved the legal tapping of the …
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November 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s Health Ministry launched on Thursday the procedure of the requisition of the services of doctors in the private sector to help in state-run hospitals struggling under the burden of the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The requisition decision is directed at doctors of specific categories who are active …
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October 10, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Mass fake vaccinations have been taking place in dozens of vaccination centers throughout Greece, media reported on Sunday. The bribe fee for doctors and nurses is apparently 400 euros. the fee is paid is by those who do not want to receive the vaccines against Covid-19 but want to gain …
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August 30, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s top court, the Council of State rejected a petition by the union of hospital doctors and workers throughout Greece, requesting a temporary order that would “freeze” compulsory vaccination. A total of 115 hospital workers and doctors had filed the petitions against the compulsory vaccination. The Council of State issued …
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July 26, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s health experts used tough language at the live briefing on Monday and called doctors who incite and advise citizens against the vaccination against Covid-19 “charlatans.” General Secretary of Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous, described the doctors participating in the anti-vaccination movement as “charlatans” and called on the bodies in …
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July 23, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced Friday incentives to doctors and pharmacists in order to persuade as much as possible citizens to get vaccinated. Speaking to Open TV, Kikilias said that the pharmacists and the doctors will get 10 euros when they book a vaccination appointment. He also added that doctors …
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July 2, 2021
Very Mix
Police have unraveled a racket dealing with bogus prescriptions which has cost the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY) around 5 million euros in damages. Thirteen members of the ring have already been arrested, including the leaders, the accountant and two doctors. The criminal case that was filed includes another …
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June 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s National Bioethics Committee made recommendations on the issue of compulsory vaccination at the request of the Prime Minister. In its report, the Commission proposes a “scalable initiative” approach on the part of the State and characterizes the provision for “compulsory vaccination” as the “last resort” under certain conditions and …
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May 28, 2021
Greece
Greece’s Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Friday an incentives program to encourage National Health System doctors to serve on the Greek islands and remote areas on the mainland. The incentives program will include financial, tax and educational incentives for the doctors’ families if they serve in the specific areas, …
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February 23, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greek hospital doctors went on a day-long strike on Tuesday and dozens marched in Athens to protest “suffocating” conditions at hospitals on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. With around 6,000 deaths, Greece has fared better than much of Europe in containing the pandemic and prevented its health service, battered …
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February 13, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis signed off on a call for 939 new permanent positions for doctors of several specialties in the National Health System, on Friday. Most of the positions (847) will staff hospitals, and the rest (92) Health Centers. Applications open on Tuesday, February 16 and the deadline is …
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January 10, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Deputy Health Ministry Vassilis Kontozamanis blamed the doctors for the deaths of Covid-19 patients outside ICUs and not the shortage of beds in the country’s Intensive Care Units. The Deputy Minister did not give any data about the death rates in and outside ICUs, neither did he commit himself to …
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