July 24, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
With threats and blackmails, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has been desperately trying to fill gaps and personnel shortages in public hospitals during the tourist season. The Minister’s policy has angered the medical world in the country, and now doctors are launching an “unofficial” strike. The big loser are, of course: …
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March 5, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A joint ministerial decision to allow afternoon surgeries in public hospitals was signed on Tuesday by the Ministries of Health and Finances. These surgeries will be carried out after the regular operating hours of National Health System (ESY) hospitals.Patients will have to pay a fee ranging from 300 to 2,000 …
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January 18, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
An anesthesiologist in a public hospital in Thessaloniki suffered a stroke after a 16-hour- long shift without a break. She told media “I came to do a shift and I’m leaving with a cane.” The Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, publicly apologized for the harsh working conditions reassuring that the …
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December 1, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Hundreds of doctor and nurses gathered outside the Parliament on Thursday to protest the bill that privatizes a large part of services of secondary health care in the public hospitals in the country. The Federations of workers in public hospitals POEDIN demanded the immediate withdrawal of the “monster” bill, as …
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May 5, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Health Ministry has paved the way for surgeries in public hospitals in the afternoon against payment by patients even if they are insured or by patients’ private insurance companies. Τhe government and the ministry are determined to proceed with several measures and changes they call “upgrade of the public …
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November 9, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
“There is one doctor for 120 Covid-19 patients. People will die with what is going on here,” director of the Neurosurgery Clinic of the general hospital in Volos, Nikos Haftouras, said on Tuesday. Describing the dramatic situation in the public hospital due to increased Covid-19 hospitalizations, Haftouras said “We are …
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March 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Hospitals doctors call on the Health Ministry to revoke its decision for the transfer of resident doctors from public hospitals in Athens to a private clinic that accepted to treat Covid-19 patients. According to a statement by the Greek Federation of Hospital Doctors (OEGNE) five resident doctors from Laiko (2), …
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November 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Greece
The private clinics requisitioned by the Greek government in the battle against Covid-19 will operate with medical staff deployed from the country’s public hospitals. This is revealed by newspaper efsyn that published also the relevant documents. Doctors in Thessaloniki, where the requisition of two clinics took place last week are …
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April 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Demand for health services in Greece’s state hospitals and other healthcare providers has dropped sharply, in some cases by as much as 85%, during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, demand for medical advisory support online or over the telephone has soared by as much as 300%-450%. “The pandemic …
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June 27, 2019
Social
They are upset and scared. And they urgently demand measures to protect them from the violent attacks by patients and their relatives. Doctors in Greek public hospital feel they are left alone and unprotected. On Tuesday, a gynecologists was beaten by the husband of a pregnant woman at the public …
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April 24, 2019
Social
We hear a lot about the public health care system in Greece and it is mostly negative reports about shortage of personnel and stuff, delays in operations and appointments with doctors. Tessa Cross, an expat form the UK, has something different to report. In a e-mail to KTG, Tessa expresses …
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November 6, 2017
Social
Greece’s doctors are up in arms against deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis, who claimed that 80% of doctors working at public hospitals receive money under the hand by patients. The Athens Medical Association called on the Minister to submit evidence about his claims. The notorious and decades-long established practice Greeks …
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May 22, 2017
Very Mix
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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February 23, 2017
Society
Angry workers at public hospitals attempted to raid the Health Ministry in downtown Athens on Thursday. They set a wire fence and hanged ‘blood’ soaked uniforms. They later set them on fire. They clashed with riot police, while one protester fainted due to the tense atmosphere. Video: protesters try to …
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January 25, 2017
Society
Cockroaches in Greek public hospitals? Cockroaches in Greek public hospitals. the union of workers in public hospitals POEDIN published two videos showing alive and kicking cockroaches in their daily tour through walls and patients’ beds. In one of the video, two insects are happily wandering around on the wall of …
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January 17, 2017
Society
Shortcomings in public hospitals postpone scheduled treatments that are life saving for several groups of patients like those suffering from cancer. According to a statement issued by the Athens Medical Association (ISA), medical staff and patients at Laiko Hospital in Athens informed the ISA of the frequent shortage of oncology …
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January 2, 2017
Society
It is not a secret and it is not new that public hospitals in Greece collapse. The first budget cuts imposed with the first bailout agreement affected the public health. Seven years later, the situation goes from bad to worse in fast speed. The austerity freezing of hiring (1:7) ended …
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August 10, 2016
Society
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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December 4, 2015
Society
Greeks in frenzy for a job at a public hospital. A total of 690 vacancies have been opened for nurses, paramedical professions and administrative staff and thus for graduates of secondary education or vocational schools IEK. And Greeks are storming the electronic applications system to grab one of the very …
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June 8, 2015
Society
A shocking revelation: Six uninsured kidney patients have died since 2011 in the broader area of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece and another 18 without insurance are struggling to undergo their 3-times weekly dialysis in the public hospitals. The harsh austerity measures of the Troika-years in the health care sector is to …
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