Greece orders private doctors to join Covid-19 battle

Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Greece’s health minister is requisitioning the services of private sector doctors from certain specialities in the wider Athens region to help fight a renewed surge in coronavirus infections that is straining hospitals to their limits.

Vassilis Kikilias said on Monday that, despite repeated appeals to private sector doctors to volunteer to help in the public sector, very few have come forward.