GREEK DOCTOR BATTLES ON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 94, 3 July 1946, Page 7

GREEK DOCTOR BATTLES ON

“I don’t know if the doctor is a good doctor or a bad one. I don’t know if he leans towards the Royalists or the Communists, and I don’t care either,” writes a CORSO relief woi'ker in Greece describing a visit he paid to one of the rare towns in Macedonia which boasts a Greek doctor. “I do know that he has a seven-bed hospital at his Public Pharmacy in a partly demolished building, that he and his daughter and a small band of helpers are running it under extremely difficult conditions and that the day I saw him his face, arms and hands were covered with excema, and he should have been in bed. It was four-thirty in the afternoon, and he had a queue of patients waiting in the hall outside, with another lot squatting in front of the building. To me he represents the many Greek doctors who have stayed on with their communities to do what they can.”