Evangelismos Hospital

A 61-year-old woman who was hospitalized on Thursday in a critical condition after she and another female pedestrian were hit by a car while standing on a traffic island on busy Patission Street in Athens has died, doctors at the capital's Evangelismos Hospital said on Tuesday.
The woman died as a result of her injuries on Monday, they said.

Two women were seriously injured on Thursday after being hit by a car while standing on a traffic island on the capital's busy Patission Avenue in the morning.

The exact circumstances of the incident remained unclear but the driver of the car in question was detained for questioning and an alcohol test.

The women were in the capital's Evangelismos Hospital on Thursday.

Four people were lightly injured on Wednesday afternoon when lightning struck the Acropolis Hill during a thunderstorm, the Culture Ministry said.
The citadel's lightning rod was hit by a bolt and its impact smashed the windows of the ticket booths at the entrance to the ancient site, injuring two Culture Ministry employees and two tourists.

Police in Attica are probing the shooting of a 53-year-old businessman in Nea Makri on Saturday night.

According to investigators, a gunman opened fire on the 53-year-old during a drive-by shooting outside the victim's business on Poseidonos Avenue.

Spyros Spyridis clung to life for 145 days at the Greek capital's Evangelismos Hospital, battling injuries sustained in Mati, the area worst hit by last July's deadly fires in eastern Attica. The 73-year-old's first surgery lasted eight hours, but the skin grafts didn't take.

The death toll from the disastrous July 23 fires in eastern Attica rose to 100 on Saturday after a 73-year-old burn victim passed away.

The man had been in intensive care at the capital's Evangelismos Hospital for burns sustained in the blaze at Mati, the coastal settlement that was the worst hit by the summer fires.

The death toll from the disastrous July 23 fires in eastern Attica rose to 100 on Saturday after a 73-year-old burns victim passed away on Saturday.

The man had been in the intensive care unit of the capital's Evangelismos Hospital being treated for burns sustained in the blaze at Mati, the coastal settlement that was the worst hit by the blazes. 

One more burn victim passed away in a hospital in Athens on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the deadly wildfires that ravaged eastern Attica last July to 99.

The 26-year-old woman was being treated in Evangelismos hospital.

A corruption prosecutor on Monday night questioned a doctor who appears to have orchestrated the release from prison last week of convicted embezzler Aristides Floros on the grounds of medical evidence that has been called into question.

A 95-year-old man who was being treated at the intensive care unit of Thriasio hospital in Elefsina, western Athens, following the deadly wildfires that ravaged Attica last month died Sunday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 91.

His death followed that of an 85 year-old man, who had been hospitalised at Evangelismos hospital.