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• Health and social crisis (Movements, health, World)

  Violation of basic human rights: Austerity, the destruction of the health system and the urgency of a debt moratorium in Greece

  9 April 2015, by UDRY Charles-André

  A meeting of the Red Network was held in Athens on April 4, 2015. One of the three workshops brought together about a hundred people who are active to varying degrees in the health sector: doctors, nurses, paramedics, those responsible for hospital pharmacies, cleaners, members of local (…)

• Health and social crisis (Movements, health, World)

  What ’austerity’ has done to Greek healthcare – “What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes”

  26 January 2015, by IRVINE Louise

  The shocking ’austerity’-imposed destruction of Greece’s once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
  In October I visited Greece to see the impact of austerity on the Greek people, in particular on health (…)