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Ministry of Health Commences Immunization Campaign for Refugees and Migrants

A campaign for the vaccination of refugees and migrants in Greece will start by the makeshift camp of Idomeni on Wednesday, the health ministry announced on Tuesday, adding it will supervise the procedure. The vaccination will be carried out by...

Greek Doctors Protest Outside Ministry of Health

On Thursday morning, Greek doctors, nurses and employees of EOPYY left their offices and gathered in the centre of Athens to protest against the Greek government’s plans concerning the ostensible reform of Greece’s main healthcare provider. After 11 am, protesters...

250 Million Euros Reduction in Funding for Ministry of Health

Before the teleconference with Troika, the Economic Body decided to reduce the funding of the Ministry of Health by €250 million. According to the 24h.gr the General Secretary of the Finance Ministry signed this decision. This amount of money was supposed...

Demonstrating Doctors Prevented from Entering Ministry of Health by Riot Police

Last Friday’s protest of doctors, nurses and ambulance staff outside the Ministry of Health ended in clashes with riot police, who prevented them from forcing their way into the building. During the clashes, the President of Piraeus Doctors’ Union Varvara Anemodoura,...

Greek Health Ministry Recommends Ban on Festivals, Increased Covid Testing

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...

Greek Health Ministry to Enforce Dormant Anti-Smoking Law

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...

Greek Health Ministry Amendment Opens Up Pharmacies Market

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...

Greek Health Ministry Announces E-Platform to Address Country's Health Care Corruption

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...

SFEE Appeals to Health Ministry, Says New Legislation Will Cause Disastrous Delays for Patients Trying to Receive New Treatments

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...

Greek Health Workers Build Wall at Health Ministry Entrance [video]

. 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...

Health Ministry Announces Downward Revisions for Diagnostic Tests

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...

Health Ministry Says There Is 'Not a Proven Outbreak' of Malaria in Greece

"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...

Greece's Health Ministry Trying to Restrict E-cigarettes in Public Places

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...

Greek Health Ministry Considers 'Fining' Cancer Patients Who Didn't Have Preventive Exams

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...

Greek Health Ministry Considers Time Schedule for Public Smoking

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...