Pavlos Polakis

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday flew to the southeastern Aegean to inaugurate two desalination plants on Kastellorizo in a public appearance that some analysts say is meant to coincide with the upcoming eight-year anniversary on April 23 of former premier George Papandreou's announcement from the same island of Greece's bailout by international creditors.

The union representing workers of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) on Wednesday issued a statement claiming that its members had been threatened and intimidated by associates of Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis.

As expected, Parliament rejected late on Thursday a proposal by conservative New Democracy for a parliamentary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panayiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches.

A proposal by conservative New Democracy for a parliamentary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith was being discussed in the Greek Parliament on Thursday.

The main conservative opposition party New Democracy on Wednesday submitted to Parliament its proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to probe whether former health ministers Panayiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith. 

Greece's conservative opposition was to submit on Tuesday a proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to conduct a preliminary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith.

More telling about the leftist-led government's treatment of its political rivals and society than the snickers of Greece's alternate health minister, the bad-mannered Pavlos Polakis, was the parliamentary address of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last Wednesday: Not only did Tsipras choose to ignore the fact that Greece's pharmaceutical spending was drastically reduced after 2010 thanks to the

The Greek initials of the country's highest administrative court, STE, stand for "salvation of the elite," Health Minister Pavlos Polakis wrote in a sarcastic social media post on Monday night.

Some 50 to 60 members of the union representing Greece's public hospital workers, POEDIN, on Thursday barged into the Health Ministry and made it to the ministry's amphitheater, where Health Minister Andreas Xanthos and his alternate, Pavlos Polakis, were meeting with other unionists.

Construction of two new hospitals will be able to get under way thanks to a donation of more than 200 million euros made by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to help the country's ailing health system.