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A surge in coronavirus infections in Greece’s northern city of Thessaloniki is pushing the hospital system to its limits, doctors at a medical facility say, as the second wave of the pandemic takes a toll. Last week Greece ordered a nationwide three-week lockdown, its second this year, in a bid …

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The Greek Health Ministry and the National Public Health Care Organization EODY are offering Covid-19 tests free of charge. The tests are carried out in specific public hospitals in several cities and under specific circumstances. The offering of the free tests take place as Attica remains the epicenter of the …

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Greece’s health authorities are increasingly concerned about a spike of coronavirus infections among the health workers in the country’s hospitals. Infected are doctors and nurses, even in clinics designated to deal with Covid-19 patients only. According to the union of hospital workers POEDIN, 70 health workers have been tested positive …

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Two patients who are critically ill with Covid-19 are being treated with blood plasma from people who have recovered from the disease, Greek health authorities said on Thursday. The tests of this treatment, known as convalescent plasma therapy, are being conducted in Athens, on patients at the hospitals Attikon and …

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Alarm in AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki on Monday after two asymptomatic patients were tested positive to COVID-19. The patients, a 70-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man, were already hospitalized for health issues other than of the coronavirus, and thus without specific safety measures for several days. Worth noting that AHEPA …

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Police squads in anti-riot gear were sent to Evaggelismos hospital in Athens to disperse a gathering of doctors and nurses on the International World Health Day. The health workers struggling against the coronavirus in the biggest hospital in Greece, were demanding better protection against the virus and the hiring of …

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A Greek pharmaceutical company launched the production of a medicine based on chloroquine that has been widely cited as a possibly successful treatment of Covid-19 patients. The medicine is to be distributed free of charge to the hospitals in the country. Pharmaceutical company Uni-pharma SA on Friday announced that it …

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Tons of medical supplies including one million surgical masks arrived in Athens international airport from China on Saturday morning. The airlift followed an urgent aid request from Greece with hospitals to run low on masks, giving only two to each health worker per shift. The aid consists of 550,000 medical …

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Dozens of doctors and nurses working in Greece’s public hospitals have been tested positive on coronavirus and some 300 members of medical staff across the country are in home isolation, unions of hospital workers POEDIN said also on Wednesday. “We are decimated, if masks do not come, there will be …

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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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The Union of Greek Shipowners singed a memorandum with the Greek Health Ministry according to which they will undertake the cost for the renovation of washrooms in state hospitals in Attica as well as renew the supply of bed linen and blankets for state hospitals across the country. 2,671 washrooms(bathrooms) …

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Death toll from Athens wildfires rose to 97 after another injured died in the hospital on Monday morning. The number of people who died in the hospitals is 14, the Fire Service said in a statement adding that the identified dead in the fire areas were 83. According to media …

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Over 15 individuals have been arrested, among them doctors, nurses and pharmacists, on accusations of smuggling expensive drugs, police sources said on Thursday. A major police operation is in progress and more arrests are expected, the sources said. According to initial information, the ring was smuggling extremely expensive anti-cancer drugs …

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At least six doctors working at major public hospitals in Athens have been infected with the measles virus  as new cases of the highly contagious disease are been recorded in Greece on a daily basis. According to information of  news website in.gr, all infected doctors were born after 1970, which …

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It all started with the theft of diagnostic machines from Agio Savvas Cancer and Oncology Hospital in Athens, last week. The story repeated in the general hospitals of Volos, Lamia and Larissa in Central Greece. Four robberies in a week. Targeted at pulmonary and gastroenterology clinics in public hospital. Bulky …

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I am speechless. Not since yesterday or last week. I have been speechless since July 13th when the Greek left-wing coalition government agreed to burden the country and the people with a new loan, the third bailout for Greece since 2010 together with the strictest austerity program ever. I have …

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Do you have outstanding debts to Greek state? The tax office will send the debt notice to the hospital bed your’ laying, to the prison cell you’re sentenced … In case you’re moved out of your last registered address, the tax debt notice will be handed to the …major of …

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Eight hospitals, 1,618 people personnel, 450 patients, hundreds of appointments and dozens of surgeries are being relocated, re-disposed and postponed in the context of “restructuring” Greece’s public hospitals system ESY. In an action that is expected to conclude in 25 days, hospitals are being evacuated, patients transferred and surgeries postponed. …

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Just 23 days after his appointment, Greece’s  Education Minister Giorgos Babiniotis threatened to resign on Thusrday upon criticism and pressure he received on his decision to disengage the funding of universities and Technical Education Schools (TEI)from the councils elections as it has been defined by a recent law passed by Papademos coalition government. …

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 Greece health condition is deteriorating. Life supporting organs collapse, the one after the other. The serum tubes dry up. As the patient dies, there seem to be no need for many hospitals. Aretaieion and Aiginiteion, two historical university hospitals in Athens downtown are reportedly to close down.  The managers of the …

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