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Doctors’ union says public hospitals are ‘germ-infested sieves’Patients at Greek public hospitals are twice as likely to contract a life-threatening infection compared to their European counterparts because of understaffing and shortages in basic sanitation methods, the union of state hospital workers (POEDIN) warned on Tuesday.Speaking to the press, POEDIN president Michalis Giannakos said that patients “are loosing the battle for life every single day because hospitals have become germ-infested sieves.â€Giannakis was speaking at a press conference after former right-wing LAOS MP Thanasis Plevris spent several days in critical condition due to an infection contracted during a routine operation.
Record drop in average spending by holidaymakersAverage spending per visit in the January-September period this year amounted to 546.60 euros, down 9.3 percent from 2015.The profile of visitors to rival destination Spain was so different that average spending per trip to the Iberian country during the same period came to 92.1 percent more than in Greece, at 1,005 euros.Britons parted with 5.6 percent less money this year.
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