Athens hospital

Former right-wing LAOS MP Thanasis Plevris was transferred from the intensive care unit of an Athens hospital on Monday after recovering from septic shock caused by a severe respiratory infection.

The 39-year-old lawyer suffered the infection while undergoing a routine medical procedure last week.

In a statement, medics said Plevris's condition was improving. 
 

Former right-wing LAOS MP Thanasis Plevris is reportedly battling for his life in an Athens hospital after suffering a severe respiratory infection and septic shock while undergoing a routine medical procedure.

The 39-year-old lawyer has been in intensive care since Sunday, while medics said yesterday his condition is "stable but critical."

Comedian Lakis Lazopoulos, probably the best known Greek satirist in the country, said his final farewells on Monday to his beloved mother, who died over the weekend.

Ririka Lazopoulou, who was often mentioned in her son’s stand-up routines as the “typical Greek mother” passed away in the morning of Saturday at an Athens hospital.

Famous Greek pop and rock singer Demis Roussos has died in an Athens hospital.

Artemios "Demis" Ventouris Roussos was born on 15 June, 1946 to a Greek father and an Egyptian mother of Italian origin. He was raised in Alexandria, Egypt.  His parents decided to move to Greece after they lost all of their possessions in the Suez Crisis. 

A man who declared on a social networking site that he wanted to kill himself is receiving psychological support at an Athens hospital following the intervention of the Cyber Crime Unit, it was revealed on Wednesday.

Police experts traced the man?s location and alerted the nearest precinct of his intentions, prompting an intervention.

A week after ending a 31-day hunger strike, the anarchist and convicted bank robber Nikos Romanos was discharged from an Athens hospital and transferred back to Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison.

The 21-year-old launched a hunger strike on November 10 after authorities refused to grant him furlough to attend classes at Athens’s technical college.

Dimitris Trichopoulos, a leading cancer researcher, has died at the age of 76 in an Athens hospital.

Trichopoulos died early on Monday several days after suffering heart problems and being admitted to Evangelismos Hospital.

Education Minister Andreas Loverdos has declared himself in favor of prisoners being allowed to study as anarchist and convicted bank robber Nikos Romanos enters a fourth week of hunger strike in protest at being prevented from being granted leave to study at a technical college.

A 19-year-old Australian tourist who was injured during a shootout between police and fugitive terrorist Nikos Maziotis in central Athens in July is suing the Greek state for failing to provide him with proper medical treatment.

The leader of ultranationalist Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), Giorgos Karatzaferis, is being treated in an intensive care unit at an Athens hospital after undergoing surgery.

Karatzaferis was admitted to a private hospital in Maroussi, northern Athens, on Saturday afternoon after feeling unwell and was diagnosed as having a blocked artery.