Healthcare comes by sea to isolated Greek isles


Síkinos (Greece) (AFP) – Coming ashore after eight hours at sea, medical professionals arrive on Sikinos, one of Greece’s smallest inhabited islands, where locals would otherwise struggle to get treatment. The initiative is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to provide free healthcare in a country where the sector suffered heavily from the debt crisis of 2010-2018, leaving per capita spending at less than half the EU average.

©AFP

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