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...

On Wednesday, the Greek Health Ministry announced downward revisions in the pricing of a series of diagnostic tests and other medical procedures in order to cut costs by reducing compensation paid to patients covered by state health insurance funds. In...

"There is absolutely no reason to have concerns over the possibility of a malaria outbreak," the secretary general of the Health Ministry Yiannis Baskozos said in an interview with the Athens - Macedonian News Agency on Tuesday. "Spreading unjustified concerns...

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...

With the recent arrival of the Ebola virus onto European shores, Greek officials are pulling out all the stops to prevent any possible outbreaks of the epidemic within Greece. Today, Health Ministry officials are meeting with representatives of the Center for...