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The Greek Health Ministry is drawing a bill where doctors in public hospitals will be hired at the same rate as departures. The Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) estimates that there is a shortage of some 6,000 doctors in public...

A draft law setting up a new hospital payroll agency, the Hospital Payment Systems Company SA, triggered a strong reaction from doctors and hospital staff who announced protests. The hospital doctors union OENGE announced that doctors will walk out on their jobs on Wednesday...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, relenting to demands from five of his lawmakers who said they would not otherwise support an amendment to restore judges' pay and pension to pre-austerity levels, will now forward another measure to do the same...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope to keep down social unrest is going unheeded as workers at public hospitals, health centers, welfare structures and the ambulance service will strike for 24 hours on July 24, leaving only a skeleton...

After months of relative calm, and just as he said Greece was beginning to show signs of turning the corner toward recovery next year, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces perhaps the biggest challenge to his new fragile coalition...

Although no previous strikes have done anything to deter the government from austerity measures that include deep health care cuts, doctors, employees in the public health system and freelance doctors called a 24-hour strike for June 7, outside the...

Spurning demands by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that blood collected for hospital donations be given only to Greeks and not immigrants, hospital supervisors in Athens and Thessaloniki said it will go to whoever needs it, including blood from...