Evangelismos Hospital

Retirements of qualified personnel, lack of sufficient hirings to replace them and the migration of mostly young doctors, combined with the exodus of other personnel well ahead of retirement, are threatening the quality of care at state hospitals, health workers say.

The Fire Service has launched an investigation into the causes of a fire that destroyed a restaurant in the Nea Smyrni district of Athens on Friday.

Fire Service sources told Kathimerini that although some eyewitnesses claim the fire resulted from arson, they are keeping an open mind as to what could have caused the blaze.

The Fire Service has launched an investigation into the causes of a fire that destroyed a restaurant in the Nea Smyrni district of Athens.

Firefighter sources told Kathimerini that although some eyewitnesses claim the fire resulted from arson, they are keeping an open mind about what could have caused the blaze.

Yanis Varoufakis, leader of the small party MeRA25, said on Tuesday he had decided to accept the police protection provided by the Citizen Protection Ministry, after he was viciously attacked outside a restaurant in central Athens on Friday night.

A group of people attacked MP and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis at a restaurant in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, breaking his nose.

The group spotted Varoufakis at the restaurant on Valtetsiou St., or was informed of his presence, and confronted him; one or more of the group eventually hit Varoufakis in the face.

Τhe increase of cases but mainly for the increase in the number of patients hospitalized due to coronavirus has caused great concern, especially in view of the summer period, as there will be even greater relaxation of the measures.

The president of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, died at noon on Monday, at the Evangelismos hospital, where she had been hospitalized since October 12 after the recurrence of her basic disease.

The trend of hospitalised COVID-19 patients refusing to be intubated, at a time when experts predict a nightmarish winter and the vaccine rollout is at a critical juncture, has burgeoned.

Following the death of a 54-year-ols woman at Athens' Evangelismos Hospital , the nation's biggest and a COVID-19 reference hospital, another 75-year old woman refused to be intubated.

The trend of hospitalised COVID-19 patients refusing to be intubated, at a time when experts predict a nightmarish winter and the vaccine rollout is at a critical juncture, has burgeoned.

Following the death of a 54-year-ols woman at Athens' Evangelismos Hospital , the nation's biggest and a COVID-19 reference hospital, another 75-year old woman refused to be intubated.

A 15-year-old coronavirus patient died in Thiva General Hospital on Wednesday, according to a report by the state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency (ANA-MPA).

According to the report, the girl had undiagnosed medical conditions. She died of heart failure.