Athens Medical Association

A report submitted by the Athens Medical Association to Greece's Supreme Court, according to which 200 intensive care units at Greek hospitals remain closed, putting patients' lives at risk, is to be examined the Athens Court of First Instance, Kathimerini understands.

Greece is overwhelmed by thousands of exhausted refugees and immigrants who continue arriving in Greece, while the government remains passive without being able to provide them even food.

Therefore, volunteers, non-governmental organizations and municipalities are trying to cover the basic needs of those people.

A day after the entire municipal council of Tilos resigned in protest at the lack of medical professionals, a doctor was dispatched to the tiny Dodecanese island late on Friday.

Athens Medical Association President George Patoulis said that there is an alarming rise in psychiatric conditions in Greece as a result of the economic crisis with 10-12% of the total population of all ages suffering from some sort of mental condition but only half of them seeking medical treatment.

The Athens Medical Association accused the Health Ministry on Wednesday of putting patients’ health in danger by allowing nurses to prescribe some basic medicines when they are treating patients at home.
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