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Doctors held over Mazonakis’s death say hospital care would have been no different

Remanded on homicide charges, Ioanna Gaka and Ilias Theodoropoulos told the magistrate they began resuscitation immediately, did not use the defibrillator after a flatline, took five minutes to call paramedics and disputed a paramedic's account

Mazonakis death: Nurses describe panic at Athens clinic in final minutes of singer’s life

Witnesses told the investigating magistrate that Mazonakis was pale and unresponsive as blood pressure readings failed, an anaesthetist said propofol has no antidote, and a paramedic said no one asked to accompany him to hospital

Doctor testifies on Giorgos Mazonakis’ final minutes at Kolonaki Stem Cell clinic

Ioanna Gaka told police she assured Giorgos Mazonakis the treatment was safe and insisted all equipment was certified, though the Athens and Panhellenic medical associations say the clinic's licence never covered treatments such as plasmapheresis

How the tragedy with the 10-year-old girl at the Aspropyrgos school happened – “She wasn’t doing gym class, she was walking and suddenly collapsed,” says the Ministry of Education

The child was immediately taken to a hospital, but doctors were unable to revive her – There was no recorded medical condition on her school health record