Athens hospital

Popular songwriter and stand-up comedian Tzimis Panousis is in an Athens hospital, in a "stable and controlled" state, according to the doctors treating him for a heart attack.

Panousis, 63, was rushed to the Elpida Hospital after collapsing on stage during a live show in the early hours of Saturday.

Athens-born singer-songwriter Arleta died Tuesday morning at the age of 72 at an Athens hospital where she had been in the intensive care unit after suffering a severe stroke. She rose to international fame as an icon of the Greek new wave scene.

Alternate Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas was in an Athens hospital on Wednesday after having stent surgery following a heart attack late on Tuesday night.

The 60-year-old SYRIZA official was said to be in stable condition on Wednesday following the procedure, which was carried out at the capital's Hellenic Navy Hospital.

A young Iraqi refugee was being treated in an Athens hospital on Friday with serious head injuries after being set upon on Thursday night in the island's reception center for migrants by a group of Afghan men.

The victim was airlifted to the capital late on Thursday as the local hospital on Chios was not adequately equipped to treat his injuries.

A Syrian man who set himself alight on March 30 at the Vial detention center on the island of Chios died on Monday, authorities said.

The 29-year-old man had been airlifted to the Evangelismos hospital in Athens with burns covering around 90 percent of his body.

Popular singer/songwriter Loukianos Kilaidonis, known for the almost naive and upbeat sentiment of his songs, has died, his family announced on Tuesday.

The 74-year-old composer, songwriter and singer passed away in an Athens hospital in the early hours of Tuesday from a respiratory infection.

Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas came under fire in Parliament on Friday - even from within the ranks of his own party - following a deadly fire at a migrant processing center on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.

A 24-year-old woman and her toddler son are in critical condition in Athens hospital after suffering extensive burns in a deadly blaze at the Moria migrant processing center on the Aegean island of Lesvos, authorities confirmed on Friday.

A 66-year-old woman and her 6 grandchild died at the Moria refugee hotspot, after an explosion and the ensuing fire engulfed the plastic tent their were living in, at Mytilene before midnight on Thursday.

A 4-year-old boy was being treated in an Athens hospital for respiratory problems on Thursday following a fire at his home in Larissa, central Greece, on Wednesday.

According to the local fire department, the fire was started by a candle that had been lit as the electricity to the apartment had been cut off due to the family's inability to pay the power bill.