On Wednesday, April 22, Attikon General University Hospital in Athens will hold a blessing ceremony for the new building complex being added to its campus through a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of its Global Health Initiative (GHI). SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos will speak during the event, and remarks will also be given by Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, University of Athens Rector Gerasimos Siasos, Attikon General University Hospital Administrator Spyridon Apostolopoulos, as well as NKUA Medical School Assistant Professor Panagiotis Koulouvaris.
The new building complex will include a place for on-call medical staff to stay, as well as a coordination center for the Mobile Medical Units, implemented by Regeneration & Progress in collaboration with Health Units S.A., under the scientific supervision of the First Orthopedic Clinic of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and created at the initiative of and with the exclusive support of SNF. It will also house the Center for Therapeutic Exercise, as well as the SNF Center for Specialized Arthroplasty Interventions and Limb Rehabilitation Rescue.