Ministry of Health

Health Minister Adonis Georgiades thanked his colleagues for achieving the goals he had set for the past year, in a post on Twitter.

As he stresses, “while the absorption target set by the Ministry of Finance for our Ministry for 2024 was 234,000,000 €, we finally achieved an absorption of 400,077,000 €, i.e. we exceeded the target by +171%…”

The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Development, and the country's Gasoline Stations Federation have joined forces to launch a road safety campaign titled "No Helmet, No Gasoline". 

The Greek Justice system has removed the “masks” from protected witnesses “Maximos Sarafis” and “Aikaterini Kelesi,” almost six years after the Novartis case emerged under the SYRIZA-ANEL government as one of Greece’s largest scandals, which has since proven to be a major political fabrication.

Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, who is now able to take legal action against protected witnesses in a bribery case involving Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, doctors and public officials as a result of a decision Thursday by the Financial Prosecutor's Office to lift the protection status of the witnesses, described the development as "a day of vindication" with a post on X.  

The Financial Prosecutor's Office has decided to lift the protection status of witnesses in a bribery case involving Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, doctors and public officials following requests from political figures whose names were implicated in the case.

The political leadership of the Ministry of Health presented the current state of the National Health System (ESY) in a press conference, countering claims from the opposition and health sector unions that “ESY is collapsing.”

Fierce political controversy was sparked yesterday by the revelation of the unauthorized and illegal pool built by the President of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance, Stefanos Kasselakis, in Spetses, despite

Taking a step back from his harsh rhetoric against private doctors who do not cooperate with public hospitals to help cover serious staffing shortages, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Wednesday that it is not his intention to force them to comply, noting that tough measures are the "last resort."

At the Maximou , all composure reserves were called upon to handle the critiques delivered at the War Museum by former prime ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras. They used an event for the presentation of a book about Karamanlis’ term to deliver a robust and nearly comprehensive critique of the current administration.

The process of admitting a patient to the ICU is determined by the Central Health Council (KESY) of the Ministry of Health