Evangelismos Hospital

Popular Greek actor Minas Hatzisavvas is at Evangelismos hospital at the Athens Center. Sources state that he entered the hospital on Monday night after suffering a stroke and was in danger for 24 hours battling for his life. Beside the great actor are friends, relatives and colleagues.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann is in Greece to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday.

Athens and Piraeus state hospital doctors will hold a four-hour work stoppage on Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to protest against their "extensive unpaid work". Their union (EINAP) said on Tuesday that past payments due by the state will start being paid by April 27 the latest.

Dimitris Trichopoulos, a leading cancer researcher, has died at the age of 76 in an Athens hospital.

Trichopoulos died early on Monday several days after suffering heart problems and being admitted to Evangelismos Hospital.

The vice president of the Hellenic Football Federation's (EPO) Central Refereeing Committee, Christoforos Zografos, was in the capital's Evangelismos Hospital on Friday after coming under attack outside his home in the central Athens district of Kolonos by two assailants who struck him on the head and arm with iron bars.

A 26-year-old man died in the early hours of Sunday after being attacked in the central Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia.

Hospital sources told the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency that the man, identified as an Algerian national, was stabbed with a sharp object and arrived at a local hospital at around 4.30 a.m. Medics were unable to save him.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is due on Tuesday to inaugurate the new surgery wing of the Greek capital's Evangelismos Hospital, built with funding from the National Bank of Greece.

Nikos Maziotis, the head of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group who was arrested earlier this month, has been moved to Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki.

Maziotis was transferred from Korydallos jail on Saturday amid tight security.

Counter-terrorism officers are to visit Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis in Evangelismos Hospital on Friday to get the leftist guerrilla's first deposition since his arrest in central Athens on Wednesday after a bloody shootout.

Greek police arrested one of the country's most wanted men – a fugitive convicted of terrorism – during a shootout Wednesday in Athens' central tourist district that left four people wounded, authorities said.