Henry Dunant

Ukraine on Monday said it had asked the U.N. and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to verify the situation in areas of Russia's Kursk region seized by Kiev, in a move branded as "provacation" by Russia.

Questions remained Thursday over the military plane crash that Russia said had killed dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers ahead of a planned prisoner exchange, with Moscow and Kiev trading accusations at the U.N. Security Council.

Russia has blamed Ukrainian forces for downing the IL-76 transport plane over the southern Belgorod region on Wednesday.

Ljubljana – Slovenia will make a humanitarian contribution of EUR 100,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2022 to help war-stricken Ukraine, the government decided on Saturday.

The ICRC’s work in Ukraine is focused on providing medical care, access to water and other basic services, the Slovenian Foreign Ministry announced.

An Athens court on Wednesday handed down a 10-year suspended sentence to Andreas Martinis, the former chairman of Athens's Henry Dunant Hospital, and his wife after finding them guilty of money laundering.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed for information on the fate of three employees abducted in Syria more than five years ago and last known to have been held by ISIL.

A three-member appeals court on Monday handed Andreas Martinis, the former chairman of Athens's Henry Dunant Hospital, a seven-year suspended sentence following his conviction for offering "free medical treatment" to prominent individuals.

The first section of a report by a parliamentary committee into alleged financial mismanagement and corruption in the Greek health sector between 1997 and 2014 has been submitted to party leaders.

A report by a parliamentary committee into alleged corruption and financial mismanagement in the public health sector is to go to the House in four sections, it emerged Thursday.

The first section of the 2,400-page report, to come to Parliament on November 6, concerns the transfer of the Henry Dunant Hospital to Piraeus Bank.

Piraeus Bank announced on Monday that it received an unspecified but "satisfactory" number of nonbinding bids for the sale of the Henry Dunant Hospital in Athens on August 3.

The bank said it will evaluate the offers with its financial adviser, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and invite successful applicants to continue in the second phase of the tender.

Listed company Athens Medical Center Commercial SA said on Wednesday in a bourse filing that it had expressed its interest in buying out the Henry Dunant Hospital Center in Athens to the Piraeus Bank board of directors.

[Reuters]