Andreas Xanthos

House turns down ND proposal for investigation into three ministers

As expected, Parliament rejected late on Thursday a proposal by conservative New Democracy for a parliamentary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panayiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches.

ND proposal for probe into 3 former health ministers being debated in Parliament

A proposal by conservative New Democracy for a parliamentary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith was being discussed in the Greek Parliament on Thursday.

ND submits proposal for inquiry into three ministers

The main conservative opposition party New Democracy on Wednesday submitted to Parliament its proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to probe whether former health ministers Panayiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith. 

ND wants preliminary inquiry into Kouroublis, Xanthos and Polakis

Greece's conservative opposition was to submit on Tuesday a proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to conduct a preliminary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith.

Draft bill lays down rules for medical cannabis producers

A draft bill laying the ground rules governing cannabis production in Greece was submitted to Parliament on Wednesday.

The bill, a document prepared jointly by officials at the Health, Economy, Agriculture and Justice ministries, seeks to end the country's reliance on foreign imports of medical cannabis.

Disgruntled hospital workers barge into ministry, interrupt meeting

Some 50 to 60 members of the union representing Greece's public hospital workers, POEDIN, on Thursday barged into the Health Ministry and made it to the ministry's amphitheater, where Health Minister Andreas Xanthos and his alternate, Pavlos Polakis, were meeting with other unionists.

Health Ministry decision gives patients access to pioneering drugs

Health Minister Andreas Xanthos has issued a circular allowing patients and doctors to request imports of pioneering drugs that are not on the EOPYY national health insurance organization's approved list when the medicines in question are for treating a life-threatening or debilitating illness.

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