The constant movement of doctors from hospital to hospital to fill vacancies, exhausting working hours, constant on-call duty and understaffed emergency departments at regional health units have led many doctors to resign.
Agreeing to the term for the sake of convenience, no matter how much it may irk certain circles, Greece is a “brand” with a solid international reputation.
The National Health System (ESY) suffers from serious staff shortages but it is not just the lack of decent salaries, but also the working conditions that are putting off doctors and nurses from working for public healthcare services.
The Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association (EESDA) has noted serious gaps and problems in recycling in Greece.
Volunteer divers from Aegean Rebreath, in cooperation with the Hellenic Center for Marine Research, have discovered waste mounds in the sea off the island of Andros with a perimeter of more than 100 meters.
The year of Our Lord 2023 has been a roller-coaster for Orthodox Christians in Turkey. On August 15, it seems, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios will celebrate an emotionally resonant liturgy at the Monastery of Panagia Soumela; permission was granted on July 24 after a report four days earlier that it had been refused.
A total of 17 Croatian nationals were apprehended across three different locations in Greece on Tuesday due to their alleged involvement in violent clashes between Greek and Croatian soccer supporters on Monday night, as reported by the Hellenic Police.
Greece’s coast guard on Tuesday rescued 52 people crammed onto a sailing boat anchored off an uninhabited island far from the country’s mainland, authorities said.
The government is ready to post the draft bill on “transparency in employment terms” and open it for public consultation, but will strip it of provisions touching upon the digital employment card, the employment of retirees and the retirement of those who owe money to the social security agency EFKA.
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has revoked the permit to construct a Reception and Identification Center (RIC) for migrants and asylum seekers at Plati-Vastria on eastern Lesvos.