Athens Medical Association

The International Health Tourism Center (IHTC) is organizing a health pilgrimage on Tuesday to the island of Kos in the Dodecanese, the birthplace of Hippocrates.

As exit polls for the European Parliament elections put opposition New Democracy firmly in the lead over ruling SYRIZA in Greece, the conservative party also appeared to be trouncing the leftists in regional elections, also held on Sunday, along with the municipal ballot.

Four in 10 Greeks believe public health services have deteriorated in the past two years, 36 percent think they are more or less the same and just 14 percent have noted an improvement, a survey conducted by ALCO for the Athens Medical Association has found.

Greece may have finally exited its harsh eight-year bailout this summer, but challenges remain, such as halting the brain drain, including doctors, according to Giorgos Patoulis, president of the Athens Medical Association.

Health authorities in Greece came under fire on Friday for their delayed response to the spread of the West Nile virus, which has claimed 17 lives so far.

With the death toll from the spread of the West Nile virus in Greece rising this week to 17, the Athens Medical Association (ISA) is urging authorities to draft an emergency action plan to deal with what it describes as a growing threat to public health.

The Athens Medical Association (ISA) announced on Tuesday it is organizing a mission with volunteer doctors to the Gaza Strip, to provide medical assistance to those injured during the protests at the border fence between the Strip and Israel.

The Athens Medical Association on Tuesday expressed concern at the fact that a non-medical professional alleged to have been practicing as a doctor for years has not been stopped despite the association's appeal to a prosecutor three years ago.

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia met with the Mayor of the northern Athens district of Maroussi, Dr. George Patoulis, who also presides of Greece’s Central Union of Municipalities, during the latter’s visit to Stockholm, welcoming him to the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. George.

The Department of Medical Tourism of the Institute of Scientific Research of the Panhellenic Medical Association has started a series of coordinated efforts to promote health tourism abroad.
The aim is to strengthen Greece’s role in the global health tourism market which amounts to 40 billion dollars.