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Dimitris Kremastinos has been hospitalized in the “Evangelismos” hospital since March 26 how it had been infected by the coronary artery, while he had met that his state of health was severe and that his intubation in the Intensive Care Unit had been considered necessary.
The news of the death of the former Minister of Health brought sadness to the world of politics.
Although it was initially reported that the former Movement for Change MP was “defeated” by a coroner, however, KINAL MP and Northern Sector MP from Athens, Andreas Loverdos, speaking about his loss, made a revelation . However, it is worth noting that during the daily briefing of the Ministry of Health, Mr. Sotiris Tsiodras stated that Kremastinos is among the victims of COVID-19.
Specifically, Mr. Loverdos mentioned in the program “OPEN Greece” that Dimitris Kremastinos did not end the coronavirus, as his wife, Mrs. Jenny Kremastinou, had informed him, the former MP had defeated the coronavirus and pneumonia caused by COVID-19, but ended up in hospital due to internal infections.
As he characteristically said, “he was in the Intensive Care Unit for many days and unfortunately it ended, he couldn’t stand it, he was healthy, like he was 40 years old.”
Sadness in the political world
The news of the death of the former Minister of Health brought grief in the world of politics. Condolence messages send political leaders, parties and ministers for the loss of the cardiology professor and for several years a member of PASOK and later of the Movement for Change.
His deep sorrow for the death of Dimitris Kremastinos. expressed the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, published on Twitter. Ms. Sakellaropoulou emphasized that Dimitris Kremastinos served medical science and politics with consistency, kindness, restraint, and ethics and expressed his sincere condolences to his family.
“The world of science and politics has lost a select executive today”Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote of the loss of the Cardiology Professor and former Minister of Health Dimitris Kremastinou, expressing his condolences to his family.
The President of the Movement for Change and the President of PASOK, Fofi Gennimata, expressed her regret at the death of Dimitris Kremastinos. ««I express my deep sorrow for the loss of my dear friend Dimitris Kremastinou. Today we have lost a great man, a brilliant scientist, an ardent patriot, a fighter for the Democratic Party, a member of parliament, a vice president of parliament, a minister, “said Ms. Gennimata in a statement. And adds, among others things: “He was” our doctor “. D. Kremastinos was not only at the side of our founder Andreas Papandreou. It earned the appreciation and trust of the Greeks., through its continuous social, scientific and academic presence, its teaching and research work, its activity in the largest cardiology clinics in the country and its permanence in the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Social Security, where it contributed to the strengthening of NSS “
Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias expressed his sincere condolences in a Twitter post.. ««Dimitris Kremastinos, a professor of medicine and a former minister of health, served the health field with dignity and a sense of responsibility. Warm condolences to your family and KINAL»» wrote in his post.
The historical relationship with Andreas.
Dimitris Kremastinos had been Minister of Health for several years during PASOK and was a personal doctor and close friend of Andreas Papandreou.
The former KINAL deputy had revealed in interviews that during the period that Andreas Papandreou was intubated in the intensive care unit in Onassis he accepted pressure as a treating physician to sign an opinion that the then Prime Minister unable to perform his duties.
See Kremastinos talking about Andreas Papandreou:
Dimitris Kremastinos, speaking to the Committee for the Revision of the Constitution and asking that the Constitution be amended so that doctors are not asked to issue an opinion on the weakness of a Prime Minister, stated characteristically for Onassis at that time: “My objective was to convey to the Delegation responsibility for a problem that I experienced tragically and personally. In other words, I have experienced that the state cannot function, although the Constitution says that the prime minister is replaced by the prime minister. In practice The late Stefanopoulos said Andreas Papandreou cannot be considered a constitutional prime minister. So he asked the resignation of Prime Minister, which was impossible to do. The country has been practically ungovernable for over a month, and if you recall, fortunately the resignation took place and the events in Imia continued, because if Imia had been a few days earlier, the situation would have been tragic for the country. “.
“I remember the late Stefanopoulos saying to me, ‘Find my son, at least make a personal opinion,'” and I replied that the board of doctors said we cannot give an opinion that Andreas Papandreou cannot functionBecause, even if a thousand works, if you wake up, then you were intubated, you could tell us: “Did the doctors replace me?”Kremastinos continued.
Who Was Dimitris Kremastinos?
OR Dimitris Kremastinos He was born on May 1, 1942 in Halki, Dodecanese and grew up in Archangelos, Rhodes. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Athens. He received graduate training on a state fellowship in modern cardiology from the University of London (Royal Postgraduate Medical School, St. Thomas Hospital, Guy’s Hospital 1973-1976).
For 30 years he pursued an academic career. He was professor of cardiology at the University of Athens, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was Andreas Papandreou’s personal doctor.
See Kremastinos talking about Andreas Papandreou:
He served as Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Security, President of the Permanent Commission for Social Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament, and in 2015 was elected Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament.
He was elected to the Parliament by the Dodecanese in the 2000, 2009, 2012 and 2-party elections of 2015.
He was President of the Permanent Commission for Social Affairs of Parliament, 2009 – 2014 and was Vice-President of Parliament from October 2015.
He served as a non-parliamentary Minister of Health from October 1993 to February 1996. Member of PASOK since 1974. Member of the PASOK Central Committee since 1996. President of the Scientific Council of ISTAME in 2010.
Director of the Department of Cardiology of the General Hospital of the State of Athens in 1985. Director of the Second Department of Cardiology of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in 1993. Director of the University Cardiology Clinic of Attikon Hospital in 2003.
He was President of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology and President of the Hellenic College of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Distinguished member of the European Society of Cardiology and distinguished member of the American College of Cardiology.
Guest Professor of Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the London and Emory Universities of Atlanta – USA. USA and the School of Medicine of the University of Belgrade.
He authored two university books, ‘Brief Cardiology’ and ‘Advances in Cardiology’, as well as 2 popular ‘Heart Secrets’ and ‘How to Get Over Heart Disease’. He has published 2,550 highly prestigious Greek and foreign scientific articles in medical journals, which are considered pioneers and are reported in international literature. His scientific work is published in the Official Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences.
He has also been honored for his research with the Athens Academy Award.
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