March 22, 2023
CORONAVIRUS
Intensive Care Units for Covid-19 patients will be abolished in Greece’s hospitals. This was decided unanimously by the large committee of experts of the Ministry of Health, which consists of more than 30 scientists. According to media information, the suggestion was made by the Director of the Evangelical ICU at …
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January 7, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
6-year-old boy Thomas was declared “brain-dead” after a 300-km adventure with ambulance though western Greece to get an ICU bed. It is the second case in just two days that a child that had to be transported hundreds of kilometers from northern Greece to the south for an ICU bed. …
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December 21, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Doctors and nursing staff returning to work after being suspended for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 will not be allowed in intensive care units and cancer wards, according to proposals by the Health Ministry’s committee of experts explained in Parliament on Wednesday. Both doctors and support staff are returning …
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September 20, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced on Tuesday 36,146 new coronavirus cases confirmed in the week of September 12-18, 2022. A total of 111 Covid-patients died in the same period, while the number of intubated patients stands at 82, the weekly report of the National Public Health Organization EODY. There is a …
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August 30, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced on Tuesday, August 30, a total of 50,579 confirmed coronavirus cases in the week of August 22-28, 2022 (ISO 34/2022). In the same period 202 [217] Covid-patients have died, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said in its weekly report. The number of intubated Covid-patients stands …
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July 21, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 22-year-old British tourist has been admitted to the intensive care unit in Zakynthos General Hospital after being severely beaten in the island’s port area. The young man received multiple blows to the head and was taken to hospital with serious head and brain injuries. He was intubated. This latest …
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July 2, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s health authorities announced on Saturday, 18,967 coronavirus cases and 14 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals ICUs stands at 97. Friday, July 1 18,996 coronavirus cases, 18 deaths, 95 ICUs EODY bulletin July 2 Tests last 24 hours: 131,591 PCR: 13,026 RAPID: 118,565 …
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March 31, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Four in ten Covid-patients intubated in Intensive Care Units of Greece’s hospitals are vaccinated and their number has significantly increased since last autumn. Health experts in the country estimate that this does not have to do only with the declining course of the population’s immunity. It is characteristic that 41% …
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March 11, 2022
Greece
Convicted Golden Dawn leader and founder Nikos Michaloliakos has been intubated due to Covid-19 infection. He is currently in the ICU of the university hospital of Larissa, where he was transferred from prison.. The man who has underlying health issues was not vaccinated against the virus. Mihaloliakos was transferred to …
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December 16, 2021
Greece, Politics
Main opposition leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras urged Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday to either to apologize or resign. “In any other country in the European Union, if the Prime Minister was caught lying in Parliament about such a critical issue, which concerns the lives of tens, hundreds, thousands …
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December 15, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A study conducted by the members of the Epidemiologists Committee Sotiris Tsiodras and Theodoros Lytras examined in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, in relation to total intubated patient load, intensive care unit (ICU) availability and hospital region. Apart from the medical aspect, the study has also political one …
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December 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Hospital workers in Greece accused the conservative government on Wednesday of reserving Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds for “Vre Important Patients”, Greeks now call VIP-ICU. The allegations come as over 100 intubated patients are been “treated” outside ICUs in hospitals across the country. President of Hospital Workers Federation (POEDIN). Michalis …
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December 4, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A well-known anti-vaxxer Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church was infected with Covid-19. It needed a prosecutor’s order to be transferred from his home to the public hospital. Until the very last moment, the 80-year-old Bishop and but also his relatives were opposing his intubation which doctor considered as essential. …
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December 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister and obviously wanna-be-medical-doctor Kyriakos Mitsotakis surprised medical staff at hospitals on Wednesday when he claimed that “ICUs are in fact “unnecessary” as there is no medical “study that there are more deaths of intubated Covid-patients outside ICU than inside.” “Yes, there are intubated [Covid-patients] outside the ICUs. …
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November 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A public prosecutor in Thessaloniki investigates incidents where people approach relatives of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 promising an Intensive Care Unit bed for a price of over 3,5000 euros. Hospitals in Thessaloniki have been reporting daily of the shortage of ICU beds and many intubated patients in regular wards. Taking …
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November 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga publicly admitted that Greece’s public health care system is not sealed to deal with the fourth wave of the pandemic. She announced that it may soon be necessary to ‘triage’ patients for treatment in Intensive Care Units of public hospitals. “If the number of coronavirus …
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June 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A foreign national who arrived in Greece four days ago has been intubated in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Thessaloniki. The 65-year-old tourist arrived in northern Greece with negative molecular PCR test on May 29. He was admitted to ICU on Tuesday, June 1. When he sought …
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March 24, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greek state minister Giorgos Gerapetritis is a lawyer and boviously a self-proclaimed pneumonologist specialized in Covid-19. “There is no problem if an intubated Covid-patient awaits 24-48 hours outside ICU,” he claimed on Wednesday. He said that “there is no need for additional ICU beds or requisition of private clinics< and …
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March 17, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Hospitals in Athens and Attica are on Red Alert due to increase of coronavirus infections and intubated patients wait in normal wards for an ICU bed The Greek government admitted on Wednesday that thε public health care system is “beleaguered by an increase of Covid-patients.” According to Hospital workers’ union …
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March 16, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced on Tuesday, 1533 new coronavirus cases with much fewer PCR and Rapid tests due to the Clean Monday holiday. 59 more Covid-patients died in the last 24 hours. The number of intubations has further increased to 605, that is 41 more than on Monday. Death toll …
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