Tag Archives: hospitals

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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Over 600 people had to receive medical treatment in the western port city Patras over the three-day Carnival weekend as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, use of substances, minor injuries, respiratory problems and panic attacks, regional health authorities reported on Tuesday. More than 300 incidents were recorded on Sunday …

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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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Greek police was set on alert on Friday morning after new threatening e-mails were sent again to Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” as well as several hospitals and one church in the Greek capital. The e-mails warned of the existence of explosive devices, i.e. “mines” at the airport and the …

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Police officers have arrested a Russian national in northern Greece for having sent threatening e-mails to Athens International Airport and six public hospitals in the Greek capital a day earlier. The 42-year-old Russian man was arrested in Thessaloniki in the early hours of this Wednesday by officers of the Sub-Directorate …

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Hospitals in Athens are full as a cocktail of infections such as Covid-19, flu and seasonal viruses, sends more and more patients to public health services. The situation is described as rather chaotic with patients to have to spend endless hours on stretchers in clinic corridors or in ERs due …

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Unvaccinated health staff – except doctors – who return to work as of 1. January  2023, must wear a high-protection mask and submit two coronavirus tests a week, the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday. The protocol refers to unvaccinated nurses, administrative personnel and other hospital staff except doctors. Doctors, nurses, …

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Hospitalized patients refuse to be discharged when their health improves, because they have nowhere to go and cannot afford the cost of living. This shocking complaint was made by the president of Hospital Workers Union POEDIN on Thursday. President of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, made public stories of people who use …

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Unvaccinated health workers of the National Health Care system will return to work under a strict protocol that will include regular rapid testing. The return is reportedly scheduled on January 1, 2023, almost 15 months after thousands of doctors, nurses and administrative personnel were sent home for refusing to not …

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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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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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A second case of leprosy has been detected in Greece in the last couple of days. A 65-year-old woman is being treated in isolation in a hospital in Patras, north-western Peloponnese while the first case is hospitalized in Attiko hospital in Athens. According to state broadcaster ERT and local media, …

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Hospitals in Greece will start administering monoclonic antibodies to Covid-19 patients with top priority to high-risk Covid-19 patients who belong to vulnerable groups, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday. the country has so far received 2,000 doses of monoclonic antibodies. According to Deputy Health Minister Mina Gaga, the administration will …

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Hospitals across Greece are delaying surgeries to free up bed space in the face of growing concerns over hospital capacity constraints. The decision by the Health Ministry, taken amid an influx of Covid-19 patients, will mostly affect selective surgeries and procedures which are expected to be scaled back by up …

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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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At least 300 people have died of COVID in Macedonia and Thrace hospitals in northern Greece over the last fortnight. 85-87 percent of them were unavaccinated. The total number of fatalities due to the pandemic in the last two weeks is 479 across the country. The situation in the hospitals …

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Anti-vaxxers parents are freaking out and attack teachers for demanding masks and self-tests from pupils as provided by law. Some anti-vaxxers went far to file lawsuits against teachers for “forming a criminal organization, treason and torture.” Parents of children at a kindergarten and an elementary school in Pyrgos, south Peloponnese, …

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Greek hospital workers protest compulsory vaccination on Wednesday as the deadline for unvaccinated health workers expired on September 1 and the first notices of suspension without pay started to be issued. The government move to suspend unvaccinated health workers could send home 8,000 to 10,000 people and drive to desperation …

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Five elderly and one member of the staff at a private nursing home in Lasithi, eastern Crete. All cases were found to have been infected with the Delta strain of the coronavirus. Covid-19 tests carried out to the remaining staff and the elderly were reportedly negative. Speaking to state broadcaster …

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Greece’s health minister ordered on Monday morning the requisitioning of private sector doctors’ services in the region of wider Athens region with the aim to help the public hospitals cope with the surge of coronavirus infections. The order affects pneumonologists, pathologists and general practitioners. Among the criteria for the requisition …

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