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Greek Healthcare Employees on Strike

Greek doctors, nurses and dentists have decided to strike on February 6, in order to express their opposition to the upcoming reforms in primary healthcare. The strike is being organized to coincide with the vote in parliament on the government’s...

Greek Olympic Athletes Salute Healthcare Workers Fighting Coronavirus

A host of Greek athletes, including Rio 2016 gold medalists Anna Korakaki, Eleftherios Petrounias and Katerina Stefanidi, joined the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) in praising healthcare workers who are helping to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Greece. Posted on...

Greek PM Tsipras Announces Abolition of €5 Fee to Access Hospitals and Hiring of 4,500 Healthcare Workers

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited the Health Ministry on April 2, announcing that his SYRIZA-led government will improve public health care in the country through the abolition of a compulsory 5-euro fee for treatment and the hiring of...

General “Black Out” in Healthcare

Greek health workers have staged a rally in the capital, Athens, to protest against the government™s austerity measures in the public sector. Doctors, nurses, hospital staff and ambulance drivers from across the country demonstrated outside the Health Ministry on Friday...

SNF Donates $7,500,000 to Greek Doctors and Nurses for Covid-19 Efforts

As a sign of their deep appreciation for their life-saving efforts this past Spring, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will be paying a total 6.6 million euros ($7.5 million) to doctors and nurses working during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came...

Greek Health Ministry Withdraws Nurses' Prescription Decree After Reactions

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...

Recognition Of Foreign University, Private College Degrees

From now on foreign university and private college graduates in Greece will have the same professional rights as Greek university graduates. Until now, non-Greek university graduates had to have their degrees officially recognized by the Greek Inter-University Center for the...

Top 10 Trades for Recruitment in the Economic Crisis

Despite Greece’s high unemployment rate and the relentless deterioration of working conditions due to the financial crisis, there are ten professions that have managed to survive. The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), after assessing employment data, listed the professions with the highest recruitment...

Greek Health Minister Jeered at Thessaloniki Hospital

Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was jeered by locals and patients during his visit to several hospitals in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Georgiadis was on an inspection of the hospitals' condition and discussing the health sector problems with the patients, doctors and healthcare...

Covid-19 Cases Drop Slightly in Greece on Friday

Greece announced that a total of 19,772 new Covid-19 cases had been diagnosed around the country on Friday, while 72 people suffering with the coronavirus had passed away over the past 24 hours. There had been a total of 80...

France Suspends Thousands of Unvaccinated Health Workers

France has suspended thousands of hospital, care home and health center workers after they refused to meet the country's rules requiring COVID-19 vaccinations. Oliver Veran, the Health Minister of France, told French radio that the suspended workers would be unpaid,...

Thousands of Unvaccinated Health Workers Suspended in Greece

5,895 unvaccinated health workers have been suspended or are in the process of being suspended from working in Greece. The suspensions follow a new law that mandates vaccines among healthcare workers, under penalty of suspension from their workplace. The Suspension...

Can Your Employer Fire You If You Refuse the Coronavirus Vaccine?

Is it really legal for employers anywhere in the world to fire you if you refuse the coronavirus vaccine? In some places, it is.

A Greek to Save the World: Who is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla?

The much-anticipated discovery of the coronavirus vaccine brought to the limelight the name of Pfizer's Chairman and CEO, Albert Bourla.

Safety "Top Priority" Says Greek PM Launching Tourist Season from Santorini

The safety of tourists is a top priority for Greece as it opens its airports to foreign visitors, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday on a visit to the popular holiday island of Santorini. “It is a great pleasure...