Tag Archives: Health sector

Inspectors investigating corruption in Greece’s “Disease Control and Prevention Center” (KEELPNO) have found thousands of important documents in a room behind a plasterboard  wall in the offices in a suburb of North Athens, newspaper documento revealed on Sunday. The “secret depot” was discovered in an joint operation by public administration …

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Deputy Health Minister, Pavlos Polakis, urged the public prosecutor to intervene after he revealed that an audit conducted for the time period 2007-2014 showed that 230 million euros have been missing from the cash registers of  KEELPNO, the Center for Disease Protection and Prevention. In his testimony at the Parliamentary …

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Greece’s parliament on Wednesday voted to open an investigation into alleged health scandals and corruption going back two decades, involving bribes and inflated prices for medical equipment and medicine. A broad majority of 187 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament approved a government proposal to look into suspected mismanagement between 1997 …

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I think that’s the joke of the day: The head of EU-Taskforce Horst Reichenbach declared, he was impressed by the reforms done by the Greeks and especially by the reforms in the Greek health sector. I suppose, neither Reichenbach nor any of the several dozen consultants who have rushed to …

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It came as expected. Employees affected by the upcoming wages cuts included in the 11.5-billion-euro package took to the streets. Policemen, firefighters, coastal guards, judges, academics, teachers, doctors, tax officers. Greece’s public sector is boiling. Civil servants protest and strike and threaten with escalation of their mobilization.  Sept 6/2012 – Athens: Riot …

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A scandalous blackmail shines on the horizon, that threatens the lives of millions of Greeks, especially the lives of long-term patients. Another blow is about to sweep away the last euro banknotes of millions of austerity-ridden Greeks. Greece’s pharmacists have decided to cut credits to insurance funds. As of 1.1.12 insured patients will …

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