Adonis Georgiadis

After an open-ended strike by pharmacists resulted in huge lines of Greeks seeking medicines, the union representing the sector decided over the weekend to open more duty pharmacies to tackle the fallout of its own industrial action.

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has been accused of not declaring the true value of a property he bought in northern Athens in 2007.

It emerged Friday that a private citizen has filed a suit against the New Democracy politician in connection to the value of the maisonette in Maroussi.

Faced with dissent within coalition partners New Democracy and PASOK ahead of a crucial parliament vote on a multi-bill expected to take place this weekend, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias on Thursday warned that failure to approve the legislation could lead to “disaster.”

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has warned deputies who have threatened to vote against a government multi-bill containing reforms agreed with the troika that failure to back the measures could force Greece to leave the euro area.

After it emerged on Thursday that as many as three coalition lawmakers were considering opposing a multi-bill containing the reforms agreed between the government and the troika, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis told Skai on Fiday that he was confident the legislation would pass into law.

There will be a trial liberalization of prices for over-the-counter medicines and if it is successful, the drugs will not have to be sold in any stores other than pharmacies, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Thursday.

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has blamed SYRIZA supporters for heckling him during a tension-filled even at Imperial College in London.

Speaking on Monday morning, after his appearance at the university over the weekend, Georgiadis dismissed his critics as a small group of leftists amid a larger audience.

Bulgaria and Greece will set up a regional network for exchange of organs for transplantation.

This was agreed at a meeting between Bulgaria's Health Minister Tanya Andreeva and her Greek counterpart Adonis Georgiadis.

The Balkan transplantation network would facilitate the organ exchange among the neighbouring countries.