May 17, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Fcking Unbelievable! Greece imposes new criteria for priority treatment in Emergencies of public hospitals. The new criterion is no longer the patient’s state of health but …the hotel where he stays. The decision for top priority treatment of VIP guests at the Conference League Cup in the ER of Evaggelismos …
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November 24, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A regulation pushed by deputy health minister Mina Gaga jeopardizes patients’ access to free of charge treatment and surgeries in Greece’s public hospitals. According to the regulation, full-time doctors exclusively working in public hospitals of ESY will be allowed to offer their services also to private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic and …
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August 30, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The young donkey, a victim of brutal abuse, has been located by a local animal welfare society and will be transferred to Attica for treatment. The animal was tied to a pick-up truck of the deputy mayor of the area and was dragged over 700 meters through the village of …
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April 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece has offered to provide treatment to Ukrainian children suffering from cancer. Health Minister Thanos Plevris made this offer to his Ukrainian counterpart Victor Liashko through a teleconference. The main topic of discussion was the transfer of children suffering from cancer, as well as their families, from Ukraine to the …
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February 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Forty-two patients infected with Covid-19 refused treatment with anti-viral pills out of fear of the side-effects, Deputy Health Minister Mina Gaga said on Thursday. Speaking at the weekly briefing Gaga said that the 42 patients were among the 757 applications in total that were approved for the administration of the …
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November 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A dangerous thus unethical proposal that “unvaccinated citizens should pay for their Covid-treatment in hospitals” was made by the President of the Panhellenic Medical Association Thanassis Exadaktylos. The statement triggered an outrage among the medical community and social media users. Speaking to Skai TV, he said that “unvaccinated citizens sick …
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July 14, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek researchers currently conducting trials for the treatment of Covid-19 using convalescent plasma have reported improvement in the condition of the 10 patients treated so far. Researchers participating in the trials led by the rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Thanos Dimopoulos said that the 10 patients …
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March 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Uncategorized
A discovery by the Hellenic Group for the Study of Sepsis in Serious Illness, through research conducted at the Attikon Hospital laboratories, opens up a new window for the treatment of the severe pneumonia caused by COVID-19. Professor of Pathology-Infectious Diseases at the 4th Department of Pathology at Attikon Hospital, …
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January 23, 2020
Social
Cancer patients and doctors in Greece’s hospitals are in despair as chemotherapy treatments is delayed or even cancelled due to shortage of chemotherapy drugs. This has been denounced by the Greek Cancer Federation (ELOC) tha has received a ling list of complaints by those involved in the treatment of cancer. …
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May 14, 2018
Greece, Politics
Greece has rejected a 100-million-euro investment to gain access to the latest technology that destroys cancer cells without affecting neighboring tissues. The new Proton Particle Accelerator developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has a small size and light weight meaning that is can be set up in …
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October 26, 2017
Tourism
A Scottish cook book author enjoyed a private VIP treatment as she was the only passenger on a £46 (€52) flight from Glasgow to Crete. Karon Grieve, 57, was the only passenger on the four-hour flight and had all 189 seats to herself. During flight, the pilot gave her a …
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October 9, 2017
Greece, Politics
Two migrant workers were attacked in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, on Saturday. The Pakistani nationals were working on a farm when a “hit-squad” consisting of five men surrounded them hurling racist slurs, beat them with knuckled-dusters and stabbed them with knives. The brutally beaten men were heavily injured transferred to …
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September 12, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban blamed Greece for the refugee crisis in his country and said that the EU needs to deploy forces to Greece’s borders. “If Greece is not capable of protecting its borders, we need to mobilize European forces to the Greek borders so that they can achieve …
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February 27, 2014
Society
Huh? As if we didn’t know it, but yet cynicism is always surprising. Greece’s Health Minister claims to know better, when cancer patients need to be treated. Adonis Georgiadis, a History Dept graduate who made a career selling controversial books on television, describes “cancer” as “a disease that does not …
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April 3, 2012
Very Mix
Greek Health Ministry will demand the expenditure for immigrants’ treatment in the public hospitals from the embassies, news portal Zougla reported. Many immigrants without legal documents find their way to the Polyclinic Hospital at Omonia Square in downtown Athens after being referred there by Non Governmental Organizations. According to latest …
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