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PM Mitsotakis Says New ICU Beds are "Crucial" as Country Nears Maximum Capacity

"The next months will be crucial and we are very well aware that if we do not take care the health system will come under great pressure," stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, at a ceremony marking the...

Coronavirus: 411 New Cases in Greece, 89 Patients Intubated; Hospital Staff Infected

Greek health authorities announced on Thursday that the number of new coronavirus cases  totaled 411, the third-highest daily number since the beginning of the pandemic, and that two new deaths had also occurred in the past 24 hours. A record...

Doctors and Nurses Associations: Ebola Is not Treated with Prayers

Irritated with the country's strategy on facing the Ebola virus appear representatives of the doctors and nurses associations from public hospitals in Greece, because, as they pointed out, there are significant gaps in the protection against an Ebola outbreak in the...

Greek MERS Patient Still in Critical Condition

The Greek healthcare worker who contracted MERS (Middle East respiratory Syndrome) is still in critical condition, the doctors said. The illness proves to be fatal in one-third of the infection cases and there is no known treatments for the...

Golden Dawn Wants Blood Only For Greeks, Threatens Immigrants

ATHENS – Sitting in Parliament for only a couple of weeks, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has expanded its anti-immigrant campaign to begin a drive to get Greeks to donate blood only for Greeks, outraging doctors and  health care...

Healthcare Assistance Now Considered A Privilege

Four years of a recession and two years of wide-ranging cuts to the state budget to reduce expenditure and balance accounts is turning health care in Greece into more of a luxury for the privileged few. With public health care...

Greeks Leave their Dead in Morgues Because of Burial Expenses

The Greek debt crisis has given birth to a new social problem of macabre dimensions. The relatives of dead people prefer leaving the corpses of their beloved ones at hospital morgues rather than paying for the burial service. According to...