Babies held hostage for medical fees, porters as paramedics, £19 out of every £20 cut: A searing despatch from Athens's blood-soaked hospitals that shows why Greece is literally dying to leave the Euro

There's no better metaphor for the health of a nation than the health of its people and in Greece, where spending has halved in five years, the situation is dyer, writes IAN BIRRELL.

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