The Health Ministry is planning to open 17 stroke units at public hospitals specializing in the emergency care of patients who have suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). “This intervention is expected to reduce mortality rates and increase the chances of patients who have suffered a stroke to be functionally independent once they leave hospital,” the…
Instability driven by climate change could threaten democracies in the future, even though representative governments are best equipped to provide solutions, experts gathered at an annual conference have argued.
Another death from leptospirosis has been confirmed in the areas affected by recent flooding in Thessaly, bringing to nine the number of people who have succumbed to the bacterial infection.
Thirty-two new cases of gastroenteritis and 86 respiratory infections have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours in Thessaly, central Greece, the region most affected by Storm Daniel three weeks ago, according to a local health official on Friday.
Conservationists in Cyprus released griffon vultures into the wild on Friday, in the latest attempt to boost a critically endangered population of the scavenger birds. Once thriving, the number of vultures on the east Mediterranean island is the smallest in Europe as accidental poisoning or changing farming techniques have left them short of food.
More than two in every five (41.5%) of the properties that are posted on short-term rental platforms have been acquired precisely for this purpose.
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed issues of bilateral and European interest ahead of next week’s European Political Community Summit and informal European Council in Granada (October 5-6) on the sidelines of a meeting of nine southern European Union countries met in Malta on Friday, government sources said.
Conservation organisations have urged police to investigate the shooting of a bear cub in the Florina regional unit of northern Greece.
The illegal turnover of the olive oil market in Greece is estimated at half a billion euros every year, as about 70,000 tons is traded in bulk in the domestic market, without documents, in tins or plastic containers.
Stefanos Kasselakis is set to embark on his first foreign visit as the leader of the main leftist opposition, taking place in Cyprus’ capital Nicosia from October 3-5.