Two doctors – one a candidate MP – suspended over rail inspector’s ‘bogus’ sick leave

Two doctors working at a hospital in Volos have been suspended from duty pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to a key Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) supervisor just hours after the deadly train collision at the nearby Vale of Tempe.

The inspector was reportedly responsible for supervising the station master who was on duty in the central Greek city of Larissa on the night of last week's collision and whose actions appear to have contributed to the accident, which claimed 57 lives.

He reportedly applied for sick leave for a month and produced a formal note to this end signed by two doctors at the Volos General Hospital, without, however, having been seen by either or having undergone any kind of medical examination.  

Meanwhile, one of the two doctors involved has been identified as Nikos Haftouras, who...