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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 National Health System has been reinforced through the hiring of an additional 3,337 doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare staff in the last two months,” Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Sunday, adding that additional hirings for hospital and health centres throughout the country are being approved daily.
“This shows once again that Greece possesses top of the line human resources in health. Doctors, nurses, porters, paramedic staff, scientists and researchers in our labs,” the minister said, giving figures for each healthcare region in the country as follows:
Attica: 163 doctors and 747 nurses and other staff
Piraeus and Aegean: 72 doctors and 378 nurses and other staff
Macedonia: 29 doctors and 384 nurses and other staff
Macedonia and Thrace: 29 doctors and 228 nurses and other staff
Thessaly and Central Greece: 34 doctors and 388 nurses and other staff
Peloponnese, Ionian Islands, Epirus and Western Greece: 38 doctors and 599 nurses and other staff
Crete: 37 doctors and 211 nurses and other staff
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.