Thessaloniki hospital

Separate criminal and administrative investigations have been launched into a Thessaloniki hospital after a photograph was posted on social media showing a patient recovering from an anesthetic stupor in a hallway.

Thirteen suspects were arrested following the most recent incident of fan violence in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Sunday evening.

Seven children from the same northern city as a boy who died after contracting strep A have tested positive for the infection, according to the president of the public hospital staff union POEDIN.

A prosecutor has already ordered an inquiry into the death of the 7-year-old boy from Naoussa, which occurred in a Thessaloniki hospital.

Criminal charges for two felonies and four misdemeanors were brought against a 21-year-old arrested for sports-related violence against a 16-year-old due to the team insignia he had on his shirt on Tuesday afternoon, in the area of Evangelistria, Thessaloniki. 

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.

A 30-year-old woman who crashed her car last week in Kilkis, northern Greece, has died, authorities said.

The woman died on Monday afternoon after undergoing multiple surgeries at a Thessaloniki hospital.

Her daughter, 9, who was in the car, is in intensive care at the same hospital.

A 27-year-old man was arrested late on Sunday accused of hurling the till roll that struck Olympiakos manager Oscar Garcia on Sunday at PAOK's Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki that forced the referee not to start the game between the two teams. The Spanish coach left hospital on Monday.

A Thessaloniki hospital confirmed on Sunday night that Olympiakos manager Oscar Garcia will not leave it before Monday morning, following his injury by a till roll at Toumba Stadium that forced the cancelation of the match between PAOK and Olympiakos for the Super League.

Doctors at a Thessaloniki hospital on Thursday described the condition of a 22-year-old Moroccan man admitted after suffering a massive electric shock is "extremely critical."

A huge fued at a beach bar at Potidea, Chalkidiki, northern Greece, resulted in a tragedy. During an argument a young Georgian national, aged 29, open-fired against a group of Greeks – killing one and injuring three. Following the shooting the gunman disappeared and a huge manhunt is underway.