Tag Archives: KEELPNO

Are you a resident of Athens and suffering from burning eyes or coughing on Tuesday? Did you wake up in the morning smelling “something was burning”? Is the view is the area you live “blur”? It is because of the smoke caused by the forest and wild fires burning in …

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Seventy four people have died in Greece due to complications after been infected with the flu virus. In its weekly bulletin, Greece’ Disease Control and Prevention Center KEELPNO said that eighteen people succumbed in the week 11-17 February 2019. Among the latest victims is a 55-year-old woman who died on …

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Flu death toll increases in Greece by each and every day, the number of dead has reached 39 people, Greece’s Center for Disease Prevention and Control, KELLPNO, said on Thursday. 84% of the victims belonged to risk groups or were not vaccinated. The death toll reached its peak last week …

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Inspectors investigating corruption in Greece’s “Disease Control and Prevention Center” (KEELPNO) have found thousands of important documents in a room behind a plasterboard  wall in the offices in a suburb of North Athens, newspaper documento revealed on Sunday. The “secret depot” was discovered in an joint operation by public administration …

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Five more people died in the last days, increasing the death toll of  West Nile virus victims to sixteen.  A total of 135 infection cases have been reported from the begin of the mosquitoes season, Greece’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Wednesday. In its previous statement …

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Audit in the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) has revealed a black hole of 90 million euros for the years 2007-2014. In a written statement the chairman of the Parliament Commission investigating scandals in the health sector, Antonis Balomenakis, said among others that independent auditors found “significant …

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Deputy Health Minister, Pavlos Polakis, urged the public prosecutor to intervene after he revealed that an audit conducted for the time period 2007-2014 showed that 230 million euros have been missing from the cash registers of  KEELPNO, the Center for Disease Protection and Prevention. In his testimony at the Parliamentary …

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Six people infected with the seasonal flu virus have died, three of them within the past week, the  Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) announced on Thursday. The patients died from  complications after contracting the flu virus. The youngest victims was 39 years old, the oldest 79. None …

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Tests conducted in water samples from the public maternity hospital “Elena Venizelou” turned negative for cholera bacteria, the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Friday. The tests were ordered after the national union of public hospital workers, POEDIN, claimed that the bacterium had been detected in …

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Cholera bacteria has been detected in one of the biggest public maternity hospitals in downtown Athens. First samples from stagnated water in the basement of the hospital that have been examined in the hospital laboratory have shown “potentially enteropathogenic microorganisms.” The Maternity Hospital “Elena Venizelos” in downtown Athens sealed one …

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The chief prosecution for corruption in Athens ordered the search of the home of the governor of Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, in a judicial case that involves his spouse, Stavroula Nikolopoulou. Investigators have reportedly seized documents and electronic files in connection with his spouse’s company, a consulting and advertising …

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A case of suspected cholera infection is being currently treated in a private hospital in Athens. According to Greek media, a 79-year-old Dutch tourist was transferred from the island of Kos to Athens for tests and treatment on Sunday and he is is the Intensive Care Unit under strict hygienic …

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Five men who had “unsafe” intercourse with HIV-positive street prostitutes were infected with the disease, Greek caretaker health minister Andreas Loverdos revealed on Wednesday. “Five out of one hundred men tested on AIDS at the premises of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEEPNO) were founded positive, ” the minister said, adding that “in private …

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Sometimes I have the feeling Greek authorities are drawn inside one spoon full of water. After the arrest of at least 12  HIV-positive prostitutes that exposed an alarming number of brainless customers and the lack of suffiecient state health controls in the dark corridors of “love” for sale, Greek Health Minister Andreas Loverdos …

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