The National Transparency Authority is recommending the permanent closure and revocation of the clinic’s license in Northern Greece, as an inspection conducted following the filing of a complaint it was found that an oncology department was operating illegally.
In fact, according to the official announcement by the National Transparency Authority, patients with diagnoses unrelated to malignancy were being treated at the clinic, and during their hospitalization, they were administered chemotherapy. According to the National Transparency Authority (ETA), this constitutes evidence that incorrect information was submitted to EOPYY for reimbursement of the clinic’s hospitalizations
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The oncology department was staffed by a single physician, a pulmonologist specializing in lung oncology, to whom the clinic provided office space without, however, having entered into a written contract with him. According to the National Transparency Authority, the clinic had posted a video on its website “in which it appears to operate an oncology department and possess the necessary equipment (a biosafety cabinet for handling cytostatic/chemotherapeutic drugs), even though it did not have the necessary legal authorization, as the clinic’s current operating license does not include an Oncology Department.”
The order to seal the clinic was signed today (9/28) by the Deputy Regional Governor of Thessaloniki, Kostas Gioutikas, and a court officer is expected to visit on Tuesday morning (September 29).
“Doctor Jointly Responsible for the Illegal Operation of the Oncology Department”
“The private physician, a pulmonologist specializing in lung oncology, under whose supervision the oncology department was operating illegally, had been prescribing, since 2022 and from the clinic’s office for his patients, chemotherapy drugs and subsequently oversaw their administration in the clinic’s “oncology department,” while the clinic’s staff handled their preparation. The physician is held jointly responsible for the illegal operation of the oncology department at the clinic, since not only is this department not provided for in the clinic’s operating license, providing services in an unlicensed facility violates the physician’s scientific and ethical responsibilities, and he did not have a written contract with the clinic setting forth the terms and conditions of their collaboration,” states the National Transparency Authority.
“A group of patients treated by the aforementioned physician were admitted to the clinic on the orders of another physician at the clinic for a few days of hospitalization, with diagnoses that did not involve any form of malignancy, while during this hospitalization, specific chemotherapy drugs were administered. “The above constitute evidence of the submission of incorrect information to EOPYY regarding reimbursement for the clinic’s hospitalizations,” according to the auditors.
It Did Not Have an Intensive Care Unit
In the findings forwarded to the prosecutor, the National Transparency Authority notes that the clinic did not employ the physicians, department heads, and had not entered into written contracts with the clinic’s other physicians, in violation of applicable law.
At the same time, it did not employ a sufficient number of nursing staff and had no staff at all in required specialties (e.g., radiologist, etc.), and it did not operate an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), as required by law in accordance with the capacity specified in its establishment and operating license.
According to the National Transparency Authority, the committee responsible for inspecting private clinics in the relevant region conducted a special inspection of the clinic’s operations in 2025 and found that the clinic did not have the necessarynursing staff required for its safe operation.
Source: Proto Thema
