July 5, 2023
Economy
As drug shortages continue to exist in the Greek market, the health ministry and the National Organization for Medicines (EOF) finally decided to take measures to tackle the problem. The four measures covering the entire supply chain are thought to address the shortages and defend the protection of Public Health …
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October 31, 2022
Social, Society
Ambulance workers warn that they face a major worker shortage that is slowing emergency response times across the country. Currently, 45 ambulances are used during daytime and 28 ambulances at night in Attica, according to the National Center for Emergency Care (EKAV). International standards recommend provision of one ambulance for …
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May 15, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Greek hotels will be looking to staff 55,000 positions this summer, at what is expected to be a very busy summer, according to hoteliers in the country. 22% or over 1 in 5 available positions will remain unfilled, hoteliers say, speaking to state-run news agency amna. According to data provided …
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January 10, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
15,547 self-tests carried out by students and teachers on Sunday and early Monday were tested positive to Covid-19, the sources at the Greek Education Ministry told media Monday noon, when schools reopened after the Christmas holidays break. The results of self-tests carried out at vocational schools were still due late …
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January 8, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Student’s parents and pharmacist have been complaining since early Saturday morning that there are no more self-tests available even though they are mandatory for students before they go to school again on Monday, January 10, after the Christmas holidays. According to a recent government decision, the self-tests for students and …
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September 6, 2018
Social
A 74-year-old British tourist died on the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese in the night form Monday to Tuesday because there was no ambulance available to take her to hospital, the national union of public hospital workers (POEDIN) has said. In a statement, POEDIN said the local hospital on …
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March 30, 2018
Social, Society
A six-pack on one hand, a six-pack on the other. Eighteen liters of bottled water are been carrying home by a senior resident of Thessaloniki. Tap water comes only drop by drop – if at all. Basic needs can be covered only by the use of bottled water. Without water …
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December 4, 2017
Greece, Politics
High school students protesting outside the Education Ministry? “No, thanks!” said minister Kostas Gavroglou and barricaded the building gates and doors with metal sheets. Minister Gavroglou could not see the protesters and the protesters were hindered into looking inside the ministry. However, the angry students were not bothered by …
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July 27, 2017
Economy
An entrepreneur in Kalamata submitted an extrajudicial statement to his local tax office, saying he would agree to install a POS device in his business only if he earns a share from the bank revenues. The statement was filed just hours before the finance ministry deadline for the mandatory installation …
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April 11, 2017
Social, Society
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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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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January 13, 2016
Society
A patient died in an Athens hospital while awaiting in vain to be transferred to a bed at the intensive care unit. The Athens Medical Doctors Association (ISA) revealed this tragic incident and sharply criticized the shortages at the public hospitals that cost human lives. According to the ISA statement, …
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January 30, 2014
Very Mix
Is it true? Can this be true? That there is shortage of paper and adhesive tape for the issue of Identity Cards? According to zougla.gr, Greek police headquarters sent a memo to all police stations saying that they will have to wait until March with the issue of ID cards, …
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December 17, 2013
Society
A lot has been said and claimed about the material shortages in Greece’s public hospitals in times of loan agreements with international lenders and severe budget cuts. But doctors do the best they can in order to treat the pain of the troubled Greek patient, whether insured or not. Doctors …
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June 5, 2012
Economy, Society
The greatness of their insignificance show politicians fighting over the exhausted body of the Greek patient. The ball of responsibility is thrown in all directions. While patients struggle to find life-saving medicine, the Greek health sector has collapsed, the National Healthcare System (EOPPY) has difficulties to get important supplies, pharmacists do not hand …
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February 2, 2012
Society
Greek school children needs more than learning equipment: hats, gloves and scarves. Until the end of the winter, so that they can challenge the low temperatures in the classrooms. Daily TA NEA reports that in many schools the heating oil supplies have gone down this year and that oil tanks …
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