{"id":6697,"date":"2026-05-21T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:55:00","slug":"adonis-georgiades-order-to-remove-from-the-nhs-an-anaesthesiologist-who-asked-for-a-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6697","title":{"rendered":"Adonis Georgiades: order to remove from the NHS an anaesthesiologist who asked for a bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public apology has been issued by Health Minister <b>Adonis Georgiades<\/b> to <b>a patient<\/b> who recorded the anaesthetist while he was asking her for a bag. <\/p>\n<p>The health minister has asked the hospital&#8217;s management to take all legal action immediately to have the anaesthetist removed from the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Ad. Georgiades states: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A short while ago I was sent an <b>unacceptable video<\/b>, which was posted on social media, of a patient who recorded an anaesthesiologist <b>while he was asking her 100-150 euros<\/b> to do what he is obliged to provide free of charge to every patient. The investigation I immediately ordered identified both the hospital and the person. <b>I also ordered the hospital management to immediately take all legal actions to have this person removed from the NHS<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p> <b>I am appalled at the envelope, an act that exploits human suffering and has nothing to do with the values we serve in the NHS. <\/b>I am very sorry and apologise to the patient.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\"> A short while ago I was sent an unacceptable video posted on social media by a patient who recorded an anaesthetist while he was asking her for \u20ac100-150 to do what he is obliged to provide free of charge to every patient. From the investigation I immediately ordered,&#8230; <\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Adonis Georgiadis (@AdonisGeorgiadi) May 21, 2026 <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to reports, the doctor in question works at the <b>Oncology Hospital of Agion Anargyroi.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Health Minister Adonis Georgiades has publicly apologised to a patient who recorded the anaesthetist asking her to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}