National First Aid Center

The Health Ministry is awaiting the findings of an investigation conducted by the National First Aid Center (EKAV) and the 1st Health Region of Attica regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old pregnant woman in Nea Makri on Tuesday and the complaints of the ambulance service's delayed response.

A 19-year-old pregnant girl has died in Nea Makri, in eastern Attica. Her relatives claim that she had to wait for hours for an ambulance to arrive.

According to reports, on Tuesday around 11 a.m., the National First Aid Center (EKAV) received a call regarding an 8-month pregnant woman who was feeling unwell and experiencing contractions.

An explosion at a Public Power Corporation (PPC) station in Iraklio, Crete, has lead to extensive power outages across the island, according to reports Friday.
No injuries were reported following the blast, according to the same reports.
Members of Greece's fire service, the EMAK rescue services and the National First Aid Center (EKAV) are at the scene, reports say.

As they had done on many previous occasions, the men of Aghios Kyrikos left the warmth of the cafe and headed to the waterfront of the eastern Aegean island of Icaria's port capital to watch a fishing boat disappearing into the distance. It was a wintry day and the small wooden boat was sailing into choppy seas with winds of up to 7 Beaufort.

A man was in police detention in Thessaloniki on Friday after entering a bank in the northern port's city center earlier in the day holding a jerrycan of fuel which he threatened to set alight.

A 14-year-old boy was killed in the early hours of Tuesday after he fell down the light shaft of a four-story building in the Thessaloniki district of Neapoli to watch the New Year's Day fireworks.

The exact circumstances of the boy's fall remained unclear. His body was recovered by members of the local fire service and the National First Aid Center (EKAB).

A large firefighting effort on Sunday contained a blaze that had broken out on a campus of the University of Crete near the port of Irakleio at around 8 a.m.

A large firefighting effort was under way on Sunday to put out a blaze that broke out on a campus of the University of Crete near the port of Irakleio at around 8 a.m.

Rescue workers recovered the body of a man aged around 50 on the slopes of Mount Olympus on Saturday.

The death of the man, who had been climbing the mountain with members of a mountaineering group from Halkidiki, appears to have been related to an existing condition though a coroner was to determine the precise cause of death.