Greece

The priest at the center of an acid attack against the seven prelates at Petraki Monastery has been sent to a psychiatric hospital.

Fifteen hundred migrants and refugees are living under squalid conditions at the Leros Psychiatric Hospital, along with 154 patients, according to a complaint by the Panhellenic Union of Public Hospital Employees (POEDIN). The public hospital workers union says that there...

A nurses' union has said its members face increasingly dangerous working conditions, after an incident in which a worker at Dromokaitio psychiatric hospital, west of Athens, was bitten by a patient allegedly infected with HIV. The POEDIN union says its...

Shocking pictures have emerged of widespread mistreatment of patients at a private psychiatric clinic in Greece. Online magazine VICE published am expose on the unnamed clinic together with photos showing patients tied to beds and chairs. VICE says the photos were...

A 45-year-old man who was spending the nights at an Athens psychiatric hospital killed his 45-year-old partner and returned to hospital to confess the murder to his psychiatrist on Thursday. According to neighbors who spoke on Ant1 television, the woman...

Among financial hardships austerities have brought on in Greece, there is mounting outrage by Greek people who are employed but do not get paid in both private and public sectors. Last Wednesday, cleaners employed at the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital in Haidari protested outside...

Three people were killed on Friday afternoon during a fire that broke out at the ground floor of Dafni Psychiatric Hospital in Athens, Greece. The three deceased individuals were hospital patients. The Greek Fire Department said that three more people were seriously injured. The...

Vicky Stamatis, the wife of imprisoned former PASOK MP and Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, was arrested almost an hour ago at Panagitsa church located in the area of Haidari, a western suburb of Athens. According to her lawyer Fragiskos...

Guards at Athens' psychiatric institution "Dromokaiteion," realized early Thursday morning that Vicky Stamatis, wife of also jailed former Greek Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, had escaped from the premises. The room where she was held was found empty and signs that the window latch was...

Zero hour for the three biggest psychiatric hospitals in Greece has come, as by the end of this year they will have to shut down. Both workers and the patients' relatives are very upset. Hundreds of patients suffering from mental...

Kostas Y. Karyotakis, who was born in Tripolis in 1896 and died in Preveza in 1928, is one of the finest modern Greek poets of the 1920s. His poetry has been translated into over thirty languages, and he is...

One day after the destructive floods in Evia finds the north of the island cut off completely from the center and south, 2,000 homes destroyed, most of the island without drinking water, and millions in damage. A total of...

A 26-year-old Greek man was transferred on Monday to an Athens mental hospital after he attacked and spat on police officers while claiming he was infected with the coronavirus. The man went into a tantrum on Sunday evening in the...

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 Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday defended his minister Pavlos Polakis, who had earlier launched a crude verbal attack on social media against an opposition politician who uses a wheelchair. Polakis accused the 34-year-old New Democracy candidate Stelios Kymbouropoulos, who...