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Plan for 50,000 free surgeries for those on waiting lists

The Health Ministry has announced a plan to pay for some 50,000 operations that have been pending at the National Health System in afternoon surgeries.

The plan will apply for patients who have been on a waiting list the longest - in some cases over a year - and will be financed with funds from the EU Recovery and Resilience Fund. The surgeries are set to start in April. 

New queries raised on the death of 4-year-old girl after a nasal surgery

New evidence on the death of the 4-year-old Melina Paraskaki after a routine nasal surgery was brought to light raising new questions on the reason of the death.

The child was hospitalized suffering from adenoid hypertrophy on December 28 in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the  University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete.

I want justice for Stefan: We are waiting for 18 years

Milena Gavrilovi? lost her son in 1997. due to medical error I want justice for Stefan: We are waiting for 18 years

Stefan Gavrilovi? would be 22 years old today if he didn't died of sepsis after a routine tonsillectomy. Athough his case is being teached as an exapmle of medical malpractice in Faculty of Medicine, Serbian Court after 18 years still did not convict the doctors.