Greece

The Greek health ministry's expert committee for tackling Covid-19 recommended on Monday that the government ban traditional festivals throughout the country until the end of July, intensify testing at the land borders and extend testing to seasonal workers from...

Greece's Health Minister Andreas Xanthos on Wednesday called on competent authorities to enforce the anti-smoking law, and start strict checks on public places where smoking is being permitted. The 2010 anti-smoking law that bans smoking in closed spaces such as...

Having agreed to the measure under the terms of Greece's bailout, the government has finally decided to the full opening of the closed profession of pharmacists. An amendment with the new rules and regulations associated with a Pharmacy license was...

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...

The Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) has announced that it has once again appealed to the Health Ministry in hopes of stopping a legislation that would make it more difficult for Greek patients to have access to new...

. Protesting public health system workers shut the entrance of the ministry of health premises by building a cement tile wall and posting a sign saying "We have moved to Brussels." Doctors, nurses and public hospital staff found this inventive way...

The Health Ministry in Greece has drafted a bill that would prohibit the usage of electronic cigarettes in public enclosed places. The bill was tabled in Parliament on Friday as the ministry has equated the electronic cigarettes as a potential...

Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis is considering having cancer patients pay 50 percent of treatment costs if they did not have regular preventive exams for the four prevalent types of cancer. According to a report in Elefthereos Typos daily, the ministry...

Unable to ban smoking in public places, the Greek government is considering to implement a measure according to which indoor smoking will be allowed at certain hours. Greeks stubbornly refuse to comply with European Union directives that prohibit smoking indoors...

The unemployed, uninsured, and the poor, who need health care and are lost in the bureaucracy of a National Health System, resort to health centers in order to see a doctor, Greek Alternate Health Minister Andreas Xanthos said on...

Greek Health Minister Makis Voridis has finally decided to withdraw his decree allowing nurses to prescribe drugs and medical supplies to patients, just three days ahead of the critical January 25 general elections and after fierce reactions from healthcare employees, including...

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...

The reforms in the primary healthcare sector has caused an intense conflict between the Greek Heath Minister, Adonis Georgiadis and the doctors of EOPYY, Greece's main public health care provider. Over the next few days, the Government Gazette  will publish the...

New Democracy's Sofia Voultepsi quit as deputy Health Minister late on June 24 citing “personal reasons.” She was replaced by Zetta Makri, also from the conservative party. Reports on June 25 said Voultepsi's decision was linked to the the appointment...

Several dozen pensioners pushed past police and stormed into the Health Ministry in Athens on Sept. 4 to protest the government’s failure to pay doctors and pharmacists for overdue state insurance bills, which has resulted in the elderly being...