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Greek PM Urges Health Care Workers to Be Vaccinated

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged health workers to receive the coronavirus vaccination during a tour of hospitals in northern Greece on Wednesday. The PM's appeal comes after polls and anecdotal evidence point to a reluctance by large numbers of...

Fifteen Health Care Providers at Athens Hospital Test Positive for Coronavirus

The Greek Health Ministry on Thursday confirmed that a total of fifteen health care providers at Athens' Aghios Savvas General Cancer/Oncology Hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus and are self-isolating. After three physicians from the second pathology oncological clinic...

Greece Tightens Health Care Provisions for Migrants, Asylum Seekers

The Greek government is planning to tighten up procedures for providing free health care and other benefits to thousands of migrants and asylum seekers. According to a circular issued this week to all state agencies by the Labor Ministry, the...

Greek Pensioners Protest Deep Cuts in Pensions, Health Care

Hundreds of pensioners protested in central Athens on Thursday against the new reduction in the pensions and cuts in health benefits. The elderly protesters marched toward the ministry of Health demanding a review of the cuts they say are included...

Greek Media on 24-hour Strike on Tuesday Over Health Care

Greece is under a news blackout after the country's biggest press union called a 24-hour strike to protest the feared closure of a special health care fund for media employees. No news programs are being broadcast on Tuesday; most websites...

Greek Health Ministry Announces E-Platform to Address Country's Health Care Corruption

This week the Greek government announced that it will be tackling the problem of corruption in the health care system in Greece by introducing the creation of an electronic, or e-platform to monitor the "envelope" system. This is the first...

Kouroublis Announces Financial And Managerial Inspection Of Health Care System

The financial and managerial inspection of all hospitals, regulated entities and individuals who undertook major projects on behalf of the Greek Ministry of Health during the last decade is the next major step of the current government, according to...

Greece Consolidates Health Care in Crisis

Greece's health ministry is merging clinics and creating a new primary national healthcare network in an effort to make the system more efficient amid reduced government spending brought about by austerity measures. Three million Greeks do not have health insurance...

German Doctors Compare Greek Health Care System to War Zone

Eight doctors from Germany who visited several Greek hospitals reported that the situation in the health care system in Greece is shocking, likening it to a war zone. "If such brutal austerity measures had been implemented anywhere else, society would...

Millions of Greeks Can't Afford Health Care

This Monday, a medical aid group said that more than 3 million Greeks -- that is 27.2 percent of the total population -- cannot afford to pay their social security contributions and are therefore left with no health coverage. The...

Health Care Workers Protest Cuts

Upset with big pay cuts and not being paid for months in some cases, Greek medical workers warned that reductions in the health care system are putting people at risk and causing many doctors to flee the country in...

Suspension of 1,618 Health Care Employees

According to the Greek Ministry for Health planning, 1,618 employees of the Health sector are expected to enter the suspension regime. A ministerial decision will be issued and the evaluation procedure will immediately begin. Minister for Health, Adonis Georgiadis, referring...

Georgiades Readies Health Care Knife

Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, is to proceed in changes in the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Nursing Staff Unions (PASONOP) and the public health system in general. As he stressed, within the next two weeks all plans on hospital mergers,...

Troika Sees Greek Health Care Hole

Envoys from Greece's international lenders discussed with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras on June 18 what they said were disturbing deficits in the funds of the health care provider EOPPY's insurance system, a shortfall of some 1 billion euros ($1.34...

No Job, No Health Care, Left to Die

Highlighting just how hard life is in Greece for many people where nearly two million are out of work, the New York Times, in a front-page story, recounted the story of a jobless woman named Elena, who was diagnosed...