Evangelismos Hospital

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou thanked the country's doctors, nurses and other hospital workers for their "self-sacrifice" as "front-line fighters" in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic during a visit to the capital's Evangelismos Hospital on Tuesday.

The Health Ministry has appointed a scientific committee to oversee the acquisition of new intensive care unit beds for the National Health System (ESY), with the aim that Greece reaches the European average of 12 beds per 100,000 citizens.

A medical worker watches a concert of state broadcaster (ERT) orchestra at the premises of Evangelismos hospital, following the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Athens, Tuesday. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

A 47-year-old man died from complications rotating to the new coronavirus on Friday evening, bringing the total number to 91, private TV channel Skai reported.

The victim, who was being treated in Athens' Evangelismos Hospital, had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on April 8.

He suffered from lymphoma and had undergone an autologous transplant in 2019. 

Greece's coronavirus toll has risen to 81 with the death of a 42-year-old man in the northern port city of Thessaloniki and of an 84-year-old woman in Athens.

According to reports, the 42-year-old man died at Thessaloniki's AHEPA General Hospital on Monday night after being admitted on March 29. He is the virus' first victim from the region of Halkidiki.

Workers at Evangelismos Hospital in central Athens will hold a rally at the emergency unit on Wednesday morning to protest against a decision by its director to forbid public statements by staff without his permission.
In a statement, the union of hospital doctors in Athens and Piraeus (EINAP) denounced what it called "an autocratic" move by the director.

One person died and another was injured in an attack near Athens' central Omonoia square on Thursday, police said.

Officers who were called at the scene after reports of gunshots found bullet cases at the corner of Sapfous and Menandrou, but it was not clear whether the victims - both of whom initial reports say are foreign nationals - were shot at or stabbed.

Greek health authorities were briefly on alert on Friday after a man with symptoms resembling those of the novel coronavirus which first emerged in Wuhan, China and has killed more than 630 people, was admitted to the Evangelismos Hospital.
However the 22-year-old man tested negative for the coronavirus.

Members of the self-proclaimed anarchist group Rouvikonas barged into Evangelismos hospital in the district Kolonaki on Thursday noon to protest the worsening state of national healthcare and the deteriorating working conditions for doctors and workers.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni was lightly injured in a car accident on Monday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

The accident happened at the corner of Mihalakopoulou and Kerasoundos streets in central Athens, when a vehicle crushed into the minister's car, injuring her and another passenger.