Highly frustrated about the ongoing deterioration of the National Health System, the dramatic working conditions that set patients at risk and the shortage of staff, Greece’s public hospital doctors and staff launched a 48-hour strike. The Federation of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE) launched a 48-hour strike across the country …
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Firefighters, army staff deployed in ambulance service; angry reactions
A legislative act to deploy members of the Fire Service and the Armed Forces to assist the ambulance Service (EKAV) has been published in the official gazette on Tuesday. The decision taken by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has triggered negative reactions not only by EKAV personnel but also by firefighters …
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Outbreak in Volos nursing home, infected vaccinated elderly and personnel
A coronavirus outbreak with 8 infections in a nursing home in Volos has set health authorities on alert. Tested positive to Covid-19 are reportedly four elderly and four members of personnel. According to local media, the four elderly were all fully vaccinated against Covid-19 since a couple of months. Of …
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Greece to recruit 10,000 doctors and health staff with 1:1 scheme
For the first time after the Greek crisis and the bailout agreements, the government will implement the scheme 1:1 in order to strengthen staff in the country’s health system. The scheme 1 recruitment : 1 departure/retirement was abolished by the lenders’ first bailout of 2010 and replaced with 1:5 scheme …
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Greek banks to close down 800 branches, cut 8,000 personnel
Greek systemic banks are forced to cut 8,000 personnel and close down 800 branches across the country. The Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European Central Bank keeps reminding the Greek banks that they have to proceed with drastic cut of operational cost and thus as soon as possible. It was …
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Cristiano Ronaldo tips big Greek hotel personnel with €20,000
A football superstar and big spender. Cristiano Ronaldo left a whopping €20,000 tip at a Greek luxury hotel during a holiday with his family. Ronaldo was so impressed by the service at the Costa Navarino resort in Messinia, South Peloponnese, that he claimed he could not leave without rewarding them, …
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New labor practices: Hotel in Kos fines employees with €30 for customers’ complains
New practices in a labor market where workers’ rights have been crashed in the name of “competitiveness” if we were to believe the International Monetary Fund. A hotel on the island of Kos has a list of fines to impose on personal if the customers’ complain for various issues. Lack …
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Second death in a week due to ambulance personnel shortage
Two deaths occurred in a less than a week because it took ages for the ambulance to reach the people in urgent need of medical care. A man died of heart attack on Monday because there was no driver available for the ambulance of the health center in the area. …
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Greece’s Public Health Services on the brink of collapse
Employees at Public Hospitals warn: “Greece’s Public Health Services are on the brink of collapse” Six years of economic crisis, loan agreements, austerity cuts and freezing of new hiring threaten the primary care health care system. A report published by the Panhellenic Federation of Employees at Public Hospitals (POEDIN) draws …
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German MPs “inspect” Athens biggest public hospital. To see the damages of German austerity?
Awa! Awesome news! Seven German parliamentarians “inspected” the Evangelismos Hospital, one of the biggest public hospitals of the Greece, to see for themselves the situation in the Public Health System and how it works, the Athens News Agency reported on Monday. Without mentioning names and political parties the interested “Seven” …
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Gripes about Greek civil services rose 26% in 2013
One should not wonder why citizens’ complains about Greece’s public administration have increased. Greeks were always dissatisfied with the public services where civil servants would come to and leave work whenever they wanted. But in recent years things got worse for another reason: shortage of staff. Troika has practically forbidden …
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Dying in the streets of Greece due to Troika cuts & shortages in health care sector
I really do not get it. Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was eager to join the Troika-demanded trimming down of the country’s public sector through the enforced “mobility scheme”/”personnel transfer”/ kick in the as*”- scheme or call it however you want it.A total of 1,641 health-care employees are to be …
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Fake or Not? EU Commission’s ‘safety warning’ to staff visiting Greece & alarming predictions
An odd and alarming at the same time e-mail puzzled many Greeks on Saturday, when a Greek newspaper posted on its internet site the content of an e-mail allegedly issued by the EU Commission to its staff containing “safety instructions”. The e-mail was apperently forwarded to EU staff due to visit Athens …
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“The Health is Bleeding”: Protesting Doctors Cover Hospital Front with Blood
Trainee doctors in Attica state hospitals had an original idea to draw attention at the shortages and shortfalls in the Greek health care sector that is falling apart. During a protest on Tuesday morning, they doused artificial blood at the front of Evangelismos, the biggest state hospital in Athens. With …
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Athens: Health Workers Protest with a …Coffin (video)
Several hundreds of public hospital personnel demonstrated on Thursday morning outside the Greek health Ministry in downtown Athens. Some of the angry protesters were holding a coffin… other chanted “No to salaries of 2, 5, 10 and 20 euro!” Despite the rain and the freezing cold, the demonstrators followed the call of …
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Austerity Kills Patients in Greek Hospitals
Austerity translated into “medical personnel shortage” started to formally kill patients in the Greek public hospitals where conditions resemble more and more those of a Third-World country and human lives are sacrificed on the altar of the economic crisis. The tragic incident occurred in the state hospital in Alexandroupolis. A neuro-surgeon was …
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