Irini Agapidaki

The seminar, taking place tomorrow, Thursday, November 7th, at the Grand Britannia Hotel in Athens, will highlight the critical importance of vaccination as a cornerstone for strengthening public health. The event will feature representatives from the government, institutional bodies, and the scientific community.

– Hello, where should I start today, from SYRIZA, where passions have flared up again, from PASOK, which if you see a debate, let me know, or from the contacts of Queen Anna D., who saw “the little kids because they asked me to,” meaning Nikos and Haris?

Fifty years after the founding of New Democracy by Konstantinos Karamanlis, the party, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, returns to its historic headquarters on Rigillis Street for a unity gathering that addresses all generations of the party.

Coverage of the entire Greek adult population with a Personal Physician, the start of free visits to pediatricians for 530,000 children, and the provision of a financial incentive for young doctors to choose the specialties of General Medicine or Internal Medicine, among others, is provided for in the Health Ministry’s bill on Primary Health Care.

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.”

Health Ministry officials are slated to host a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the trajectory of Covid-19 infections in Greece.

Deputy Health Minister Irini Agapidaki has advised parents not to send their children to school if they exhibit symptoms of a respiratory infection.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled on Friday New Democracy's (ND) country-wide list for the upcoming elections on May 21 that includes eight women and seven men.

Greece and UNICEF on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement to help prevent and combat child obesity on Thursday. The agreement was signed by Minister for Health Thanos Plevris, General Secretary for Public Health Irini Agapidaki, and UNICEF's Representative in Greece Luciano Calestini.

A group of 86 asylum seekers, most of whom had previously been staying on eastern Aegean islands, flew to Hannover, Germany on Thursday as part of a resettlement program of 1,024 asylum seekers which began last July. 

The group that left on Thursday consisted of children with serious health problems, along with family members.