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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Greece’s medical authorities went on alert after the death of an 8-year-old boy in a hospital amid fears it could be diptheria – thought eradicated three decades earlier in the country – although he had been vaccinated for the disease.
He was being treated in the intensive care unit of the Athens General Children’s Hospital and doctors became alarmed after lab tests showed it could be diptheria, which creates a thick gray coating in the throat making it difficult.
Greek medical officials were waiting for results from the United Kingdom’s Public Health England agency to confirm the cause after they said he died of acute respiratory infection, pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary edema.
The child, said to have been in the care of a foster family for three years, was admitted to the hospital Nov. 22 with symptoms of acute laryngitis and severe respiratory distress and his deteriorating condition prompted doctors to place him in the ICU, said Kathimerini.
Despite initial reports he was only partially vaccinated against diphtheria, sources from the National Health Organization (EODY) told the paper he had received all five necessary shots without an explanation why he contracted the illness nevertheless.
The European Commission was set to present the 2019 State of Health in the European Union report which examines health care systems in the 28-country bloc, including Greece, said Euractiv.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.