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Through four pages of the letter who went to his own people shortly before ending his life, Dr. Dimitrios Kampanaros and the testimonies of the people who were with him in the morning, the police try to sketch in the last hours of the suicide of 41 years, owner of the Thalpis nursing home in Agios Stefanos
According to the information, it was planned meeting with nursing home staff at 10 am on Wednesday to discuss the new data on Covid-19 and give instructions on the plan of measures to follow. At the same time, he received the results of the coronary artery test he had undergone and when he saw that it was positive, he lost the ground under his feet. This result affected him extremely, he could not handle it and made the fatal decision.
He went home, printed on Four white paper paste the thoughts and feelings of the moment. and then he turned the carbine on his head and pulled the trigger. Police found the shotgun jammed, causing the 41-year-old to pull the trigger a second time to end his life.
The corpse was found by his own man while the note left and presented by protothema.gr, reached for his mother’s hands. «I got tired. And I was probably not a good captain. I loved my job. I was wrong, I put on a crown after all this …“The suicide note says on the note, while adding”Title: through the glass (and to no avail) they will call me weak. OK. I was. I’ll live with it. ”
My mother and my sister, do not cry for me for more than a year. I want to calm down wherever I go, if I go somewhere. “Finally on page 3 he says«If I hope to live (unable to die) hey! “I don’t have a plant to water myself.” And finally he mentions about the gun “because of the possession of the gun, it belonged to my dad.” Maybe I can find it. Unless I go to hell …. ».
Conscientious and sensitive
Those who knew him speak of a man who showed “real concern for the vulnerable.” For people in need. For the elderly. “He himself, in an interview with” THEMA “, had pointed out the need for” more tests in the care units for the elderly. “He was a man who took care of the least and it seems that his concern That the virus didn’t get into his drive was huge. “In fact, we do weekly tests ourselves. So we find cases and we mobilize. The virus is silent “, Dimitris Kampanaros has just told us about the spread of the coronavirus in” Nea Thalpi “and the appearance of cases in staff and the elderly.
The local community of Dionisio is shocked. I was recently informed of the tragic news of the death of our fellow citizen Dimitris Kampanaros, who was the owner of the “Nea Thalpi” Elderly Unit. Unfortunately, the deceased took his own life, for reasons not yet clear, while as we all know, a few days ago it was made public that a guest and two employees of the Unit that he maintained were found positive for Covid-19.
“Dimitris Kampanaros was a prominent member of Dionysos Municipality society, an excellent businessman and eminent scientist, especially loved by our local community,” Dionysos Mayor Giannis Kalafatelis recently said in a Facebook post and continued: “I want to to say that I am shocked by the tragic news. On behalf of my colleagues, I also express our deepest condolences to the family of the deceased and our full support as may be necessary. Good sky to have … “.
Who was Dimitris Kampanaros?
On the Nea Thalpi website you can find a quick search and the reasons why you decided to exclusively take care of the elderly. As he explained his own choice, “it was the fruit of a purely internal encouragement and love for my Muse, my grandmother Artemis.” He used to call the elderly “my children.” Dimitris Kampanaros, when he built Nea Thalpi in Agios Stefanos, decided not to leave any old man defenseless. It housed more than 100 people. It was even proposed to create a blog so that everyone is informed about all the problems. His objective is clear from the beginning: “The soul never grows old in our company and in the Nea Thalpi BLOG we become friends with all of you, so that no one grows old …”.
“After graduating from the Department of Pedagogy – Philosophy – Psychology (Department of Psychology) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2001, I continued my studies in the field of Gerontology, in Germany, at the University of Heidelberg, obtaining a Master’s degree in 2001 Baden-Württemberg Scholarship).
In 2002 I received the DAAD award for the foreign student with the best academic performance combined with a social contribution to the elderly in the city of Heidelberg. I have always wanted to offer my knowledge and myself to improve the lives of older people, in practice and not in theory. So I returned to Greece in 2006 and created the “Nea Thalpi” Care and Recovery Unit in Agios Stefanos, Attica, “he wrote about the unit he created.
“For the first time in Greece I implemented programs of occupational therapy, mental empowerment and creative employment trying to change the negative stereotype of weakness and disability that prevails in common sense for the Third and Fourth Age.
From 2010 to 2014 I held the position of Special Advisor for Social Policy in the municipality of Ilioupoli. In 2012, the municipality of Ilioupoli received the Panhellenic Award for Active Aging and Intergenerational Solidarity from the European Commission. From 2012 until today, together with the NGO “50 y Grecia”, with a strategic partner, the telecommunications company COSMOTE, the innovative Program “Access to the Digital World” has been implemented, by virtue of which more than 6,000 of our fellow citizens over 50 have received knowledge basic use of computers and tablets. Since 2014 I have been a special advisor at the TIMA Public Benefit Foundation, which finances programs related to the coverage of the primary needs of the elderly, always guided by the principle of substance and sustainability. Since 2014, I have been Treasurer of the Panhellenic Association of Units of Care for the Elderly. In 2020 I completed my studies at City College, an international branch of the University of Sheffield in England, obtaining the title of Executive MBA in Health Care Administration. “Thank you for your trust,” he continued in his message on the website.
