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Riot police fires tear gas at hospital doctors protesting privatization of Health

December 11, 2019 Very Mix Comments Off on Riot police fires tear gas at hospital doctors protesting privatization of Health

Greek riot police fired tear gas at hospital doctors in downtown Athens on Wednesday. During the clashes between protesters and police, an elderly person fainted. the clashes started when unionists of the Hellenic Association of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE) tried to enter the hall in Aigli Zappeion where the …

Greeks fed up with the mountains of stinking garbage threatening public health

June 26, 2017 Greece, Politics 8

A man claimed on TV, he saw rats ‘big like cats’ roaming at night through the mountains of garbage that lay uncollected since one week. “It’s stinking! Awful! Microbes!” another man shouted right in the camera. An elderly woman urged “they should take the garbage in their homes”. It is …

Tonnes of garbage pile up on Greek streets due to municipality workers strike

June 24, 2017 Social 3

Big bags, small bags. Black bags, blue bags and supermarket bags. Closed bags and open bags. They all pile up on the streets of Athens and other cities across the country. Municipality workers have been on strike since last Sunday, the government tries to find a solution and national health …

Greek court rules: Teachers’ and Transport workers’ strikes put public health at risk

May 15, 2014 Society Comments Off on Greek court rules: Teachers’ and Transport workers’ strikes put public health at risk

Did you know that teachers’ strikes put the students’ health at risk? Have you ever thought that a court is concerned about the public health when it comes to strikes but it doesn’t seem to care when thousands of patients are deprived of basic medical care because they cannot afford …

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