Caesareans account for 6 out of 10 births in Greece
Six out of 10 births in Greece are by caesarean section, compared to 25% in Northern, Western and Eastern Europe, according to World Health Organization data published in 2021.
Six out of 10 births in Greece are by caesarean section, compared to 25% in Northern, Western and Eastern Europe, according to World Health Organization data published in 2021.
The European Civil Protection Mechanism has informed the Republic of Cyprus that the country’s offer to send a rescue team to quake-stricken Turkey has been accepted by Ankara, Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitris Demetriou said in a tweet Wednesday.
The second migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece this week left five people dead and nine still missing, according to the Hellenic Coast Guard on Tuesday as the search proceeded in the chilly, windy conditions.
Rescue teams were making desperate efforts on Tuesday amid terribly adverse conditions to find survivors under the rubble left behind by Monday’s successive massive earthquakes centered near Turkey’s border with Syria.
US Senator Bob Menendez, who chairs the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has green lighted the sale of Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 fighter jets to Greece, he told the Delphi Economic Forum in Washington.
The wintry weather front dubbed Barbara will continue over the next two days, bringing snow, sleet and rain to Magnesia, Fthiotida and Viotia in Central Greece, Attica, the island of Evia and the northeastern Peloponnese.
Rescuers raced against time early Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble before they succumbed to cold weather two days after an earthquake tore through southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria. The death toll climbed above 7,700 and was expected to rise further.
The death toll in Turkey from earthquakes in its south rose to 6,234 by Wednesday morning, the Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) said.
Several Orthodox churches were badly damaged, such as the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in Iskenderun, historically known as Alexandretta, in the Hatay province of southeastern Turkey, after the huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Police say 10 passengers were slightly injured when a bus collided with a car in central Athens Wednesday.