In accordance with the decision signed on Tuesday by Minister of Health Thanos Pleuris, new medical specialists are being added to the Personal Doctor system. The addition was necessary primarily because of the shortage of registered general practitioners (internists) in the new primary care system, but also so that citizens, especially the chronically ill, could […]
Starting from October 1, the system of making an appointment for “personal doctor”. The Ministry of Health has issued guidance on the requirements for personal physicians under contract with ΕΟΠΥΥmake a schedule of admission. The first appointment will last twice as long (30 minutes) so that the doctor has time to fill out the citizen’s […]
Prevention, promotion and health protection, the underfunded three axes of public health in Europe and Greece, is a fact that has become apparent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic crisis. Greece is in 25th place out of 27 countries EUsince we spend only 0.1% of GDP or 1.27% of total health care spending, while […]
Relatives of a 94-year-old bedridden woman who had to be treated at the Paxos Island Medical Center (with no ambulance “on the move”) were forced to transport her in a truck, wrapped in blankets. As reported “open TV, when the family called the Health Center for an ambulance, they were told that the only driver […]
Doctors from Lamia Hospital, using a flexible bronchoscope and special forceps, removed the crown of the tooth that was stuck in the patient’s lung during intubation. As it became known, a 50-year-old man with unhealthy habits (alcohol and tobacco use) suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage. The unconscious man was intubated in Karpenisi and later transferred to […]