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Health system ailing

Doctors and nurses call for more staff and better resources

Doctors and nurses at state hospitals have told Sunday's Kathimerini - which spent time with them on the wards over the last few days - that the National Health System is desperately understaffed and underfunded.

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More police to be put on street patrols

Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras told Sunday's Kathimerini that he plans to put more policemen on the beat, while insisting that Greece's secret service has not been involved...

Investors still in hunt for Olympic

As Greece tries to convince the European Commission that it has the right plan for a legitimate successor to Olympic Airlines (OA), a joint consortium that had made a preliminary agreement...

Partygoers run riot in Athens

Revelers from a party at the Athens University of Economics and Business went on the rampage in central Athens early Saturday, causing damage to five buildings and a main road to be shut...

Market for energy is opening up

Energy ministers from the European Union and the Balkans met in Athens on Saturday where they discussed jointly freeing up the market and the possibility of using nuclear power...

Vandals leave Hania center shy of cameras

The director of the Mediterranean Architecture Center in Hania, Crete, was baffled on Saturday when he discovered that vandals had visited the building overnight and torn down...

IN BRIEF

Three people killed in motorcycle accidents in Athens yesterday : Motorcycle riders got together in central Athens on Saturday...

Minister hopes solution will be found : Labor Minister Savvas Tsitouridis said yesterday he was optimistic...

Climbing accident : A 47-year-old woman was seriously injured...

Illegal immigrants : The Coast Guard yesterday detained 19 off the eastern Aegean island of Kos...

Post haste : Prison guards on Crete confiscated a parcel containing clothes...


THIS WEEK

Monday : The Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage is hosting...

Tuesday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis pays an official visit...

Wednesday : Elections at universities to vote...

Thursday : Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis to attend...

Friday : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to chair New Democracy's national meeting...

Saturday : Communist parties from around the world to meet...


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EDITORIAL

Deceptive ‘truths’ The intervention of the judiciary in disputing the reliability of viewing figures being issued by the AGB television ratings company has touched on an exceptionally important issue. After all, the firm is facing criminal charges of fraud, which makes the problem far more significant than the commonplace rivalries between TV channels and the financial games played by advertising firms. In this case, the proper functioning of crucial elements of our public life, and ultimately the judiciary itself, have been thrown into doubt.

COMMENTARY

Our health system needs help For the patient, hospitals represent a frightening «no man's land» between health and illness, between life and death. For Greece itself, hospitals are the criterion by which we can judge whether the state is serious about the welfare of its citizens. The National Health System functions well, but unfortunately not well enough to prevent a mass exodus toward the expensive private system that has been set up.

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