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Bribe: Many complain, few report – How and why corrupt doctors go unpunished

The imposition of sanctions is delayed, and the overlap between criminal and disciplinary proceedings within the National Health System (ESY) creates a long and difficult process until the final judgment

Today the trial of cardiac surgeon Lymperiadis for the “fakelaki” – “Alright Sofia, I’m going to give them to the others too,” he told the woman who reported him

Charged with the misdemeanor of bribery – The testimony of the woman who informed the Internal Affairs Service about the director of the cardiac surgery clinic at Hippocrates Hospital

“I usually take €5,000, but from you I’ll only take €3,000,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Lymperiadis to the woman who reported him for a bribe

He will appear in court on Friday – “She gave it to me as a gift and put it in my trousers,” he claimed during his arrest

Georgiadis on the arrest of doctor at Hippocrateio: “Bribery has no place in the NHS, I loathe it”

“As long as I am Minister of Health, not a single such case will be tolerated,” stressed the Health Minister today