Greece

The National Bank of Greece donated a new ward with 15 operating rooms to Evangelismos Hospital. The new building was inaugurated by the Greek Health Minister Makis Voridis on Tuesday. The new ward includes two orthopaedic operating rooms and two of the...

Mount Athos is on high alert, after 20 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the monks belonging to the many monasteries on the peninsula.

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos was hospitalized on Thursday morning after testing positive for the coronavirus. The 82-year-old head of the Greek Church, who is believed to be suffering from only mild symptoms at present, is receiving treatment...

According to an announcement by Greece's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, Nikos Dendias, the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, is now under quarantine after coming into contact with someone who had a confirmed case of Covid-19. Dendias had met...

"My daughter recently gave birth to my first grandchild. I haven't even met my grandchild. I have seen him through Skype. But, it is really hard for me not to be able to touch him, to kiss him," Maria...

The Contemporary Musical Orchestra from Greece's Public Broadcaster ERT performed in the courtyard of Evangelismos Hospital in Athens on Monday evening as a gesture of gratitude for the hard work performed by the medical and paramedic staff of Greece's...

A 16-year-old Greek girl on Thursday donated 300 masks to an Athenian hospital in a heartwarming gesture that shows how philotimo can motivate the country during these dark times. Coralia Hadjiyannaki created a fundraising campaign called "The Greek Mask...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced on Thursday that it will build three new hospitals and provide funding for other health initiatives in Greece which will together represent a donation of 420 million euros ($460 million) to healthcare in...

Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias on Tuesday designated medical centers across the country which will be tasked with functioning as referral hospitals which will have to deal with potential cases of the deadly coronavirus. The decision was taken during a...

Members of "Rubicon" anarchist group; notorious in its blitzkrieg-like destructive attacks on government offices, has apparently taken on yet another public facade: That of patients' vigilante. Members of the group invaded "Evangelismos" hospital in Athens today, accusing a doctor in his...

Members of anarchist group “Rouvikonas” (Rubicon) threw flyers outside Evangelismos hospital on Tuesday evening with insulting slogans against former prime minister Lucas Papademos, who is being treated there for injuries suffered after a terrorist attack against him. Police are searching...

Evangelismos, Greece's largest public hospital located in central Athens, is facing a serious shortage in medicine, according to the hospital's employee union. Cardiologist Elias Sioras, president of the hospital employee union, told Protothema.gr that while Evangelismos' budget for 2015 was...

Prominent Greek businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis, who was arrested on Dec. 13 over his alleged involvement in a scandal involving the Proton Bank, in which he was the major shareholder, was taken to a psychiatric hospital on Dec. 14 as...

As Greece prepares to give its banks 50 billion euros ($64.6 billion) and pay some eight billion euros ($10.34 billion) in back bills to creditors, the country’s hospitals are suffering dire shortages of critical equipment, including gloves and gowns,...

The story of Father Dimitrios, the monk who turned out to be a spy for the British Intelligence Service in pre-World War II Greece