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Defense minister requests management overhaul in military hospitals
Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias asked the head of the Greek Armed Forces to conduct a full review of the management of military hospitals after two patients revealed they had received months-long delayed cancer diagnosis at the same health facility.
Policeman files lawsuit against doctors over delayed cancer diagnosis
A 55-year-old police officer who underwent surgery at Thessaloniki General Military Hospital in December 2022 for acute appendicitis only to be informed a year later that a biopsy had shown he had cancer has filed a lawsuit against hospital doctors and others involved in the case.
Thessaloniki: The lawsuit of the police officer who was informed he had cancer a year later
The 55-year-old police officer describes in his lawsuit the tragic sequence of events and the negligence of the doctors that turned his life into a nightmare, after he entered the hospital for an appendectomy and was infor
Romania to have its first hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgeons this year
Romania will have its first hepato-biliary-pancreatic (HBP) surgeons this year. Doctor Irinel Popescu told a news conference on Wednesday at the 10th symposium of the Romanian Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Hepatic Transplant, going on between March 25-28, that 30 Romanian doctors will complete classes in hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery.