The need to provide additional financial incentives to doctors in the intensive care units of public hospitals has been stressed in comments to Kathimerini by Dimitris Georgopoulos, professor of pulmonology and intensive care at the University of Crete and until recently director of the ICU at Iraklio University Hospital.
A 60-year-old man died after his car fell into a gorge in a wooded area on Sunday in the monastic state of Mt. Athos.
The timing of the national elections will be heavily influenced by whether they are based on the 2011 census or the most recent in 2021. According to sources at the Ministry of Interior, if elections are held after February, they will be based on the most recent census data.
The new Athens metro Line 4 (Alsos Veikou-Goudi), expected to go into full operation in 2029, will serve 340,000 passengers on a daily basis, and indirectly serve to ‘remove’ from daily circulation 53,000 cars, according to assessments.
The issue of low-interest or even interest-free mortgages for young people and couples aged 25 to 39 is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2023, as the basic terms of the program and the relevant draft law of the Labor Ministry have already been written up and put up for public consultation.
The investigation into allegations of abuse at the well-known children’s charity Ark of the World (Kivotos tou Kosmou), which has facilities in Athens, Piraeus, Epirus and Chios, has been beset by allegations of leaks resulting in witness intimidation, leading a prosecutor to investigate.
The next tourism campaign Greece is preparing will focus on the sustainable tourism product, environmental protection, green entrepreneurship and the blue economy, as Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias told the Circle the Med Forum 2022 this week.
The destruction of the ecosystem in the Syngrou Forest in northern Athens has been denounced by local residents, who claim that during ongoing cleaning operations, all low plants – shrubs, herbs etc – have been indiscriminately uprooted, while several turtles have been killed by heavy machinery.
The 13th Honey and Bee Products Festival is opening this Friday at the Peace and Friendship Stadium at Neo Faliro, Piraeus.
Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s.