May 26, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Dozens of people were transferred to hospitals in central Greece due to excessive use of alcohol during a mega students party with over 8,000 young participants who traveled to Volos from several parts of Greece. The party was organized by students of the Mechanical Engineering Department and its very popular …
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April 30, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris was attacked with yogurt, while he was having lunch with his wife and children in a tavern of Petralona district of Athens at Sunday noon. In a post on Twitter, minister Plevris uploaded two pictures and blamed “brazen leftists” for the attack adding that also …
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November 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Two to three hours before the oncology department of one of the biggest hospitals in Athens opens its gates at 7 a.m., cancer patients waiting for chemotherapy have already lined up outside, standing in the darkness before dawn, in the low November morning temperatures. Shocking and shameful suffering for …
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August 4, 2022
Uncategorized
Fragile elderly and vulnerable patients were evacuated partly being carried on the arms of personnel when the fire at the historic Balikli nursing home for Greeks and general hospital broke out in Istanbul early afternoon on Thursday. All 104 patients have been successfully evacuated amid thick smoke, nobody was injured. …
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July 20, 2022
Social, Society
The number of citizens from the fire fronts areas in North-East Athens who have been transferred to hospitals of the Greek capital rose to 45 on Wednesday evening, media reported. Among them are three people with burn injuries, one of them is in serious condition. The majority of hospital admission …
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July 15, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 49-year-old man sought a hospital in Patras due to heavy chest pain and breathing difficulty. He was turned away though, as the hospital staff claimed it was not on emergency duty. He died short time later. Greece’s health minister has ordered a preliminary investigation into “Agios Andreas” hospital in …
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May 19, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A 43-year-old man died on a chair in the emergency room of a big hospital in Thessaloniki and his body was discovered hours later, when the medical staff changed shift. The man had gone to the hospital with a pain in the leg, the doctors did not find anything wrong …
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April 7, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
The man was one of three patients in the ward where the fire broke out on Wednesday morning. A 79-year old patient was completely burned and died on the spot. The third patient, a 72-year-old man, also sustained burn injuries and “is being treated out of danger”, director of …
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April 6, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Very Mix
A fire broke out in the Covid unit of the Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki, where people with respiratory problems are being treated. One patient died and at least two others were seriously injured. The fire broke out in the Covid-unit where 20 patients were treated. Twenty patients heavily ill with …
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March 27, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The first lawsuit for the death of a patient who contracted Covid-19 in a hospital and died was filed by the family of the deceased patient. The lawsuit was filed by the widow of the 59-year-old man. The patient was admitted to a well-known private hospital in Athens on April …
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March 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Friday that Greece will rebuild the maternity hospital of Mariupol that was bombed and destroyed last week by Russian forces. “I want to express my abhorrence for what is happening in Ukraine and in Mariupol in particular, which has become a symbol of resistance. …
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January 12, 2022
Uncategorized
Two workers were injured, when the false ceiling in the kitchen of Greece’s biggest hospital Evangelismos in Athens collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. One of the workers had to be treated in the hospital due to injuries suffered in the head and the neck. the other worker suffered some minor injuries …
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January 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
An impressive graffiti to honor health workers who tirelessly struggle to save lives and fight against the pandemic in Greek hospitals is decorating the wall of the Tzanio public hospital in Piraeus. The graffiti depicts the daily battle that doctors and nurses fight in the hospitals for the last two …
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December 27, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Seeking to have a molecular PCR-test on Christmas Day turned into a small adventure for a young man in Heraklio on the island of Crete. Twice tested positive on self-tests, the young man sought to confirm the illness with a PCR-test. Mission impossible. The 24-year-old man felt ill on Saturday …
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December 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A donuts-baker has been appointed to the position of Deputy general director of the public hospital on the island of Ikaria. Anezinia Stamouli proudly announced her appointment on her social media account last week and publicly thanked local MP of ruling New Democracy, Christodoulos Stefanadis for her appointment, that has …
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September 13, 2021
Social, Society
Police on Monday arrested a 58-year-old man after he attacked a woman with a corrosive liquid. The incident took place outside the Nikaia General Hospital, near Piraeus, shortly after 10 a.m. The man sprayed a so-far unknown substance on the 64-year-old woman after an argument they had in front of …
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September 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A public prosecutor investigates at least 47 fake vaccination certificates issued at a public hospital in Karditsa, northern Greece. An employee was falsely certifying vaccinations against Covid-19 to residents of the broader area. The bogus certificates were issued at the Palamas Hospital in the month of August. The scandal was …
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June 6, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The commander of general hospital of Agrinio was forced to resign on Saturday after revelations of dramatically high mortality rates of Covid-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital in western Greece. On Thursday, the Greek hospital workers union POEDIN revealed that 35 out of 40 patients died …
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May 24, 2021
environment, FEATURED
Τhe public prosecutor of Thessaloniki filed a case against the general manager of Ippokratio hospital for discarding mattresses and rubble to the river Gallikos, a NATURA 2000 protected wetland, beginning of the year. Τhe issue turned into ping-pong ball between the Hospital and the Municipality and led to tragic-comic situations. …
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April 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A foreign national was arrested by Greek police for supplying patient attendants in hospitals with fake certificates of negative Covid-19 molecular tests and rapid tests. The 31-year-old woman was selling the certificates for 10 euros, when a PCR test costs 60 and a rapid test 30 when carried out in …
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