2024-10-18 18:31:00
A farm vehicle driven by an elderly man went off the side of the road and hit the motorcycle of a 47-year-old father of four.
A 47-year-old doctor was about to take his last breath on the asphalt, after hours on duty in the emergency room of the Lamia hospital, mourning his family, friends, colleagues and the whole city.
According to the report, the supervisor of Surgery II was returning home at noon on Thursday, after a difficult shift, when a farm vehicle, driven by an 84-year-old (!) suddenly came off the side road and hit him head on. and the motorcycle ridden by the unfortunate father, wearing a helmet. The death of the bike, which was thrown far away, according to the same source, was instantaneous.
The president of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, spoke about the loss of the 47-year-old: “His duty ended at 9 in the morning. If he had left at 9 in the morning, maybe if he had left on time he would have avoided the fatal accident.”
His time in the emergency room was difficult. Throughout the night he took care of seven wounded from the prisons of Domokos and in the morning, although he was exhausted, he stayed close to his patients and also to his mother who underwent the usual operation that morning. He finally left around 12 noon and a few minutes later the fatal thing happened.
His wife – also a health worker – works as a nurse at NIMTS hospital. Although she had many children, her transfer to the Lamia hospital was not accepted, so she had to go back and forth between Athens and Lamia to see her family.
“He worked a double shift and left because the children are there too. Because they had many children, they did not receive joint service. The children are in Lamia and the mother used to come – she did double shifts at NIMTS and on holidays she used to come and read a bit to the children,” said the 47-year-old’s mother-in-law. .
Also a traffic accident with a motorcycle in Rethymnon
A young man died tragically in Rethymno, around five o’clock on Friday evening, on the road from Arkadi to Rethymno, behind the historic monastery.
The motorcycle driven by the foreigner collided with a truck, in the opposite direction of traffic, under circumstances that have not yet been clarified, and EKAB picked up the bike unconscious, and the driver of the truck was not injured.
The causes of the traffic accident are being investigated by the Rethymnon Traffic Department.
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