Children's cancer hospitals to be privatized?

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This is our weekly round-up from Greece.

A new bill given only four days to public consultation has raised fears that children’s oncological hospitals will be privatized shortly. The fears do not seem unfounded. At the same time, 14 hospitals are crying out for more hiring as lack of staff has led to deaths that could have been prevented, doctors say.

Financial scandals involving the misuse or/and appropriation of public money seem never-ending, with government lawmakers at the forefront. Developments on four of them took place this week.

The state institution responsible, among others, for ‘educational’ seminars to newly appointed teachers, hands out material characterized as reactionary, old-fashioned, discriminatory, and even racist. There were just a few minor mistakes, the Ministry responded.