Almost 2/3 of Greeks, that is 66.8%, do not visit a doctor for medical check ups or therapy because they cannot afford pay for the “free” Health services, Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT announced on Wednesday. The findings of ELSTAT’s announal survey on the health of citizens in Greece are “disappointing” …
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Greece ends use of masks in public transport-Exceptions, tests
Greece’s Health Ministry ends the compulsory use of face masks against Covid-19 on public transport means that was obligatory since April 2020. The measure goes into effect on Monday, March 27, 2023. Note that many passengers stopped wearing the obligatory masks in public transport since the government relaxed general protection …
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White Tiger Cub’s health improving; prosecutor intervenes (POLL)
A high-level prosecutor intervened in the case of the malnourished, sick and abandoned white tiger cub following a request by an animal welfare federation. Τhe estimated 4-month-old female cub was found abandoned under a garbage bin outside the Attica Zoo Park in eastern Athens. The white tiger cub was examined …
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FM Dendias interrupts Mt Athos visit after health incident
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias suffered an incident of low blood-pressure, while he was attending the liturgy in a church of Mount Athos. Dendias was standing in the Holy Monastery of Xenophon short after 7 o’ clock Thursday morning when he felt dizzy and fainted thus falling to the floor and …
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Diagnostic centers on 3-day strike: No tests, screening for insured patients
Diagnostic centers, laboratories, polyclinics and clinical laboratory doctors have launched a three-day strike across Greece. The strike will leave patients insured at the National Health Care Organization (EOPY) without diagnostic tests and screening in private health sector, while public hospitals are “eternally” overwhelmed. The three-day strike extends from Monday, July …
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Pandemic & Mental Health: 21% of Greeks doesn’t leave home for fun or socializing
Pandemic and mental health – 21% of Greeks do not leave home at all for fun or socializing, a new nationwide survey has found. The mental health and sociability of Greeks is burdened by the pandemic, according to a new nationwide survey by Focus Bari and YouGov. Two years after …
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Leader of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, withdraws from leadership race due to health reasons
Fofi Gennimata, the leader of socialist opposition party Movement for Change (KINAL/PASOK) announced on Tuesday afternoon that she will not run in upcoming party elections for leadership due to health reasons. Gennimata announced her withdrawal from the leadership race on a tweet in which she wrote: “The deterioration of my …
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Reshuffle: Changes in crucial ministries, one more minister from the far-right front
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis proceeded to cabinet reshuffle removing ministers who were supposed to have been “successfully” managing the crises like the pandemic and its side effects in health and tourism. The cabinet reshuffle includes the introduction of a Civil Protection Ministry that will also have jurisdiction over the Fire …
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Koufontinas’ health “seriously deteriorated,” says Lamia Hospital
The health of Dimitris Koufontinas has “seriously deteriorated” on Saturday, Head of Lamia General Hospital of Lamia, Andreas Kolokithas, announced in the evening. Convict terrorist Koudontinas is in hunger and thirst strike requesting his transfer from the prison on Domokos, Central Greece, to Korydalos in Athens, He is currently being …
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Greek health experts hold meeting on Covid-19 mutations
Greece’s health officials are meeting Friday noon to discuss the issue of the new coronavirus mutations. The meeting chaired by Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias is attended by the President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Academy (IIBEAA), the president of National Public Health Organization …
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50% of hospital doctors, 60% nurses reluctant to get Covid-19 vaccine
Not all health professionals in Greece’s hospitals intent to get the vaccination against Covid-19 expected to be launched in the country at the end of the month. 6 out of 10 nurses do no want the vaccine, while the rate of doctors is at 50%. hospitals across the country. Already …
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Greek islands in turmoil due to their health classification as “high-risk zones”
Small Greek islands are in turmoil due to the health classification as “high-risk” destinations by the Ministry of Health. They see such plans as an effort to undermine their struggle to get out of the economic quagmire after the coronavirus lockdown that has significantly affected the tourism sector. Ahead of …
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Mammoth donation by Niarchos Foundation to improve health services in Greece
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) will proceed with a mammoth donation to improve health services in Greece. In the framework “Initiative for Health” that creates partnerships between the state and private organizations, the SFN will build two general hospitals, one children hospital and provide equipment to already existing hospitals. The …
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Greece to scrap free health treatment for tourists from EU, third-countries
Foreign visitors to Greece will have to immediately pay for their hospitalization or treatment in the country’s health units, Health Minister, Vassilis Kikilias, ordered in a circular issued last week. The measure regards European and third country citizens who are insured. “Greek taxpayers will no longer pay for the treatment …
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Composer Mikis Theodorakis discharged from hospital in Athens
After almost three weeks in hospital Mikis Theodorakis returned home on Thursday. The 94-year-old composer was hospitalized since February 26, when he was rushed to hospital with dyspnoea and tachycardia on recurrent atrial fibrillation. On March 8, he received a pacemaker. He remained hospitalized receiving intravenous medication and was discharged …
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Police arrests antiquity smugglers, seizes precious statue they wanted to sell for €500K
Greek Police seized a statue believed to date to the Hellenistic era after breaking an antiquity smuggling ring in Sparti, in the southern Peloponnese. The marble statue without head is believed to represent ancient Greek goddess of Health (Ygeia). The statue is 55 cm high. The antiquity smugglers wanted to …
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Greek authorities on alert after 45 out of 60 students get sick in regional high school
Greek health authorities are on alert after 45 out of 60 students in a regional high school went sick on Monday. The director of the high school in Akraifnio, in the Viotia Prefecture, north of Attica, decided to close the school Closed the Akrafnaio school by Orhomenos. According to preliminary …
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Ex Defense Minister Tsochatzopoulos released from prison after 5 years
The five-member Court of Appeals for Felonies decided to release from prison former PASOK Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos due to health reasons.Akis Tsochatzopoulos was convicted to 20 years imprisonment for bribes and money laundering. Total time he spent in prison is five years. By a majority of three to two …
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Workers at Public Hospitals occupy Health Ministry
Personnel working at Greek public hospitals symbolically “occupied” the Health Ministry in Athens on Friday morning and closed the entrance with chains. The Panhellenic Federation of Workers in Public Hospitals (POEDIN) said: “A year ago the Prime Minister promised 4,500 recruits and increased funding. Nothing was materialized, funding declined, while …
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Greek government: Fast Forward with anti-austerity measures
Alexis Tsipras and his junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos pushed the Fast Forward button to restore a series of so-called “reforms”, that is austerity measures imposed by the country’s lenders, the Troika. Several new appointed ministers of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition started to announce thorough changes, right after they assumed …
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