Health
Cancer patient commits suicide unable to bear the pain due to...
Mar 12, 2024
A 72-year-old cancer patient in Heraklio, Crete, has ended his life unable to bear the pain and waiting for medicine to do...
Pay or Die: Greece’s Health Ministry introduces “Afternoon Surgeries”
Mar 5, 2024
A joint ministerial decision to allow afternoon surgeries in public hospitals was signed on Tuesday by the Ministries of Health and Finances.
These...
WHO chief decries siege of Gaza hospital, urges immediate access for...
Feb 18, 2023
The head of the World Health Organisation on Sunday voiced grave concerns over the deteriorating situation at a hospital in the southern...
Public pharma for Europe, a game-changer for access to medicines
A growing number of organizations in Europe is demanding a complete overhaul of regional pharma policies in order to protect people’s health over profits
February...
Blair and Hague push for sale of NHS records to private...
Jan 25, 2024
TONY BLAIR and William Hague came under fire today after they pushed the sale of NHS medical records to private firms.
In a...
The Greek Health Sector: Decimated by the German – EU –...
Anesthesiologist suffers stroke after 16h shift; minister apologizes
Jan 18, 2024
An anesthesiologist in a public hospital in Thessaloniki suffered a stroke after a 16-hour- long...
One fourth of the population of Gaza may die
It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are about disease in Gaza
By Devi Sridhar
Dec 29,...
The Epidemiological War on Gaza
Disease is poised to become an even deadlier second front in Israel’s assault on the besieged Strip.
By Maya Rosen
January 5, 2024
On November 28th, Margaret Harris,...
Cancer Patients in Gaza Denied Medical Treatment
The Palestinian Health Minister in Gaza said that cancer patients there are enduring unbearable and inhumane conditions.
Jan 2, 2024
Over 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza...
‘Barely a drop to drink’: children in the Gaza Strip do...
Water and sanitation services are at the point of collapse with large-scale disease outbreaks looming, UNICEF warns
20 December 2023
Recently displaced children in the southern Gaza...