Pages

▼

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Hit by crisis, Greek society in free-fall

FILE- In this Sept. 28, 2012 file photo, private hospital nurse Paraskevi Petropoulou holds up her unpaid electricity and income tax bills during a protest outside the Health Ministry in central Athens. Petropoulou said that she has not been paid for more than five months, because the government owes money to private hospitals who in turn are unable to pay their employees. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens, but scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)A sign taped to a wall in an Athens hospital appealed for civility from patients. "The doctors on duty have been unpaid since May," it read, "Please respect their work."



READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT news.yahoo.com
at