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Thessaloniki man arrested for allegedly abusing his elderly father

Police in Thessaloniki are investigating a suspected case of elder abuse after an 82-year-old man accused his son of beating him.

State broadcaster ERT on Tuesday reported that the man was admitted to the northern port city's Papanikolaou Hospital on Monday night with injuries to his head and ribs, which, he told the doctor who examined him, had been caused by his son.

Power transmission company employee electrocuted while cutting branches

An employee of power transmission operator ADMIE has been hospitalized after being electrocuted while cutting branches near power lines in the northwestern region of Florina.

State broadcaster ERT said the accident happened after a branch fell on a high voltage cable.

Anti-vax lawyer arrested for dissemination of fake news on COVID-19, then released

Greek police arrested anti-vax lawyer Nikos Anastasiadis last night in accordance with a prosecutor's order that cited the "dissemination of fake news" on COVID-19 and "incitement to disobedience".

A preliminary investigation had previously been conducted by the prosecutor's office following complaints by citizens.

Impassioned plea from hospital doctors for immediate steps to prevent collapse of NHS

The situation at public hospitals (the only one that treat COVID-19 patients), with rough shifts of even 36 hours for exhausted hospital doctors and patients being treated on cots in corridors, has raised a series of issues that must be urgently addressed in order to avert a collapse of Greece's National Health System (NHS).

NHS on verge of collapse, hospital doctors demand immediate emergency measures

The situation at public hospitals (the only one that treat COVID-19 patients), with rough shifts of even 36 hours for exhausted hospital doctors and patients being treated on cots in corridors, has raised a series of issues that must be urgently addressed in order to avert a collapse of Greece's National Health System (NHS).

ICU head fears third Covid wave

The head of intensive care units at a large Thessaloniki hospital says the system is under intense pressure from the rising number of coronavirus cases and that he fears a third wave of the pandemic  early next year.

"The situation is desperate, the ICUs are full," Nikos Kapravelos, head of the ICUs at the Papanikolaou hospital, told Skai TV Sunday.

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