Elpis Hospital
Greece
Head of Greek Hospital Gives Emotional Interview on Suicides
The head of Elpis Hospital, Theodoros Giannaros, gave a video interview that was posted on the Corriere Della Sera website, entitled “Ten thousand suicides in five years, the last one was my child.”
“Since the crisis started in 2011, about 10,000 people...
Crime
Man Killed in Athens Sunday Evening
A man was shot dead yesterday evening in Exarchia, in Athens Greece, shortly before 8 pm,. The man was shot seven times with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and then stabbed once with a knife. The incident occurred on the...
Europe
Austrian Red Cross Donates Ambulance to ‘Elpis’ Hospital in Athens
The Austrian Red Cross has donated an ambulance to 'Elpis' General Hospital in Athens, which was delivered on Monday and accepted by Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis.
The minister thanked the Red Cross and journalists from Austria, noting that they...
Greece
Austria Sends Medicine For The Uninsured
An assistance caravan with medicine and paramedical material arrived from Austria to the Elpis Hospital in Athens. The medicine is for the uninsured, who lost their health care insurance along with their jobs. “We have received five tons of...
Europe
Greek Paperwork Holds up Free Drugs
While Greeks are trying to survive the financial crisis, in Austria there is a man who has gathered thousands of euros worth of medicine from local pharmaceuticals in Salzburg, and is trying to deal with the Greek bureaucracy in...