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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 – A requirement that Greeks and those with health insurance must have a personal doctor has led to some 2 million people registering so far after a first failed attempt in 2018 to implement the system.
That’s despite so far excluding the most populous area of Attica, which includes the capital, and the Southern Aegean, the Heath Ministry telling Kathimerini that 3200 general practitioners signed up, including 1,000 private doctors.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris and Primary Healthcare General Secretary Marios Themistokleous said there are 4,000 private doctors eligible to register in the system but only 25 percent have done so.
In the try to persuade Greeks to get a personal doctor four years earlier only about 700 physicians wanted to take part and fewer than 1.3 million people in a country of 10.7 million registered for it.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.