October 4, 2024
Society, Very Mix
An unbelievable complaint regarding the hospital in Aigio, northern Peloponnese: the hospital asked 20 euro for tests to be conducted to a firefighter, member of an Albanian mission that came to Greece to help contain the big wildfire in Xylokastro. The firefighter, a member of the Albanian mission that was …
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August 16, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
They were supposed to collect snakes from the fields and bring them to the church of Virgin Mary of the Snakes – Snakes Panagia – on the eve of her Dormition Day on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. However, the three men accidentally picked up also a …
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May 17, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Fcking Unbelievable! Greece imposes new criteria for priority treatment in Emergencies of public hospitals. The new criterion is no longer the patient’s state of health but …the hotel where he stays. The decision for top priority treatment of VIP guests at the Conference League Cup in the ER of Evaggelismos …
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March 22, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
An orthopedic patient at a public hospital in Athens complained to media that the clinic had no ice packs and they brought him two bags of frozen peas, instead. The patient submitted to Skai TV also a picture to document the unprecedented ‘healing method’ in Greece 2024, showing him on …
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February 8, 2024
FEATURED
Even though they have no health issues, eight minor siblings were admitted to a public hospital by order of a prosecutor in Thessaloniki, due to lack of welfare structures. The siblings, aged 7 months up to 13 years old, were transferred to the pediatric ward of Papageorgiou public hospital, the …
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December 29, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
This is surreal Greece amid increase of Covid-19 and flu infections. The corridor leading to the ER of a big public hospital in Athens was turned into a venue of joy with live music and dance and thus while the facility was on emergency duty. Taken away by the sound …
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October 30, 2023
Social, Society
A patient at the Metaxas Oncology hospital in Piraeus fell from the fourth floor of the building and died on the sport earlier on Monday afternoon. The 67-year-old man had reportedly undergone a major surgery last week, where a tumor was removed. Police officers who rushed to the hospital courtyard …
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October 12, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police has arrested two stretcher-bearers at the public hospital on the island of Lesvos who took bribes from the owner of a funeral parlor to inform him which patients were in critical condition and likely to die. The arrests on Tuesday followed a complaint filed at the local police station. …
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October 4, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 4-year-old child on the remote island of Kastellorizo was seriously injured in an accident and her parents took her to a hospital in neighboring Turkey as the Greek ambulance helicopter did not respond to the call for a transfer to the island of Rhodes. According to media, the girl …
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October 3, 2023
Greece, Politics
Health Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis sacked the management of the Konstantopoulio-Aghia Olga General Hospital in northern Athens on Tuesday, after an inspection of its psychiatric unit revealed patients of the psychiatric clinic lived in insanitary conditions and crumbling infrastructure. It is the second management of a public hospital sacked by the …
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September 1, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A patient at the psychiatric ward of the General Hospital of Corfu is accused of killing a fellow patient at the state-run facility, police said ον Friday, The 45-year-old assailant, who is said to be grappling with bipolar disorder and psychosis, allegedly assaulted the victim, a 63-year-old woman who was …
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August 22, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Eleven newborn babies were evacuated from the General Hospital in Alexandroupolis on Monday night due to the wildfires raging in the area. Ten babies were transferred in batches to the hospital in Kavala. One of the newborn babies had reportedly to be intubated and was transferred to the hospital in …
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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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