Attikon Hospital

A 13-year-old girl was taken to a hospital in Athens on Thursday after ingesting unknown quantities of an anxiety drug at a house in the district of Peristeri.

The teen was with a friend when, under unclear circumstances, she escaped her aunt's attention and swallowed several pills from a box containing Xanax. The girl was rushed to Attikon Hospital but her health is not at risk. 

A patient who was undergoing treatment at the surgery clinic of the Attikon Hospital in western Athens committed suicide by plunging from a fourth floor window, according to announcement on Saturday by the president of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers, Michalis Giannakos. 

Doctors at the large Attikon hospital in Attica, a university hospital, have issued a statement indicating that the hospital has reached the breaking point and that once again today their shift began with dozens of patients being treated on cots, for lack of beds.

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou was vaccinated against the coronavirus Sunday afternoon.

"This Christmas, science gave us the greatest gift," Sakellaropoulou said after her vaccination shortly after 2 pm Sunday.

Sakellaropoulou is the first of 45 state officials whose vaccination was given priority to keep the machinery of state operating smothly.

Two children have been hospitalized in Greece with a rare inflammatory disease possibly linked to the novel coronavirus, reports say.

One of the two is being treated at the Ippokrateio Hospital of Thessaloniki in northern Greece and has reportedly so far tested negative for coronavirus.

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has risen to 145, reports said on Monday after an 88-year-old woman infected with the virus passed away. 

The 88-year-old had been receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the capital's Attikon hospital. 

The orchestra of state broadcaster ERT performs at the Attikon hospital, during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Athens, Thursday. [Costas Baltas/Reuters]

Greece's death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 100, after a patient at the capital's Attikon Hospital succumbed to the disease late on Monday.

According to preliminary reports, the patient was a man aged 84 years old.

Greece confirmed its first novel coronavirus infection on February 26 and reported the first death from the Covid-19 disease on March 12.

The doctors and nurses who came into her room at the Greek capital's Attikon Hospital were always in medical coveralls and masks. She couldn't distinguish their features or roles - just their eyes, and that only when their goggles weren't fogged up.

Three patients have died since the last government update on the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Greece on Thursday evening, bringing the total toll to 89.

Overnight, a 79-year-old man died at the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and an 86-year-old woman succumbed to the virus at the capital's Attikon Hospital.