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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 – The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Health Initiative will fund three new state-of-the-art hospitals in the cities of Komotini, Thessaloniki and Sparta, at a cost of $750 million.
The aim is to better health care outside of the Greek capital with the new facility in Thessaloniki, the country’s second-largest city, be dedicated to pediatrics and offer services in cardiology, hemodialysis, and oncology, as well as neonatal and pediatric intensive care, the foundation said.
A mental health clinic for children and adolescents will be created in an adjacent building, said Kathimerini of arguably Greece’s most important philanthropic organization with little coming from tax-free shipping oligarchs.
The Komotini hospital will be for general care and work with a network of local health care centers across Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, replacing the Sismanogleio General Hospital, built in 1937, one of the country’s oldest.
The facility will have a photovoltaic roof to take care of most of the hospital’s electricity needs, a scheme not in wide use in Greece despite the abundant days of sun to capture solar power.
The new hospital of Sparta will replace one there on the same spot, which has been in operation since 1953 and will provide acute secondary care for adults and children and specialized services.
Those will include medical and surgical specialties such as cardiology and urology, as well as gynecology, pediatric and critical care units and will have an adult mental health unit, with its own private facilities and outdoor spaces.
The plan is for all three hospitals to be delivered in late 2025, the foundation said. The SNF project is a joint corporation with Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) and Betaplan, the newspaper reported of the scheme.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CAIRO — Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday, according to Egyptian officials.
Days after a Russian missile struck near where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in Odessa meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Greece moved to send more guns and ammunition to help against Russia’s ongoing invasion there.
UPPER DARBY, PA – The Saint Demetrios Greek School in Upper Darby held a celebration on March 17 in honor of March 25th, 1821.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over the food crisis in Gaza and conduct of the war, according to the White House.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin basked in a victory early Monday that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices.