As part of our Global Health Initiative (GHI), SNF supported an upgrade to the 251 Air Force General Hospital, which offers health care services to active-duty members and veterans of the Hellenic Air Force and the Hellenic Fire Corps as well as the general public, making it a universal resource people in Greece.
The grant’s completion was celebrated in a special ceremony that took place on October 16. It involves the procurement of medical equipment for five different departments, including the procurement and installation of a PET/CT scanner in the Nuclear Medicine Laboratory, a fully integrated digital angiography system in the Interventional Radiology Laboratory, a complete high-resolution digital endoscopic system in the Gastroenterology Department, a cone beam CT scanner in the Dental Department’s Radiology Unit, as well as a comprehensive software support program in the Central Cytostatic Drug Dissolution Unit.
Vassilis Kaskarelis, Senior Advisor to the SNF Board of Directors, gave remarks at the event, saying, "The principle which guides us at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is ‘empowering humanity.’ And at 251 Air Force General Hospital you honor this same principle and put it into practice every day, taking care of, for example, citizens who are not connected to the Air Force, people from remote islands, but also the members of the Fire Corps who find themselves on the front lines so often every year, as well as so many more, opening your doors wide to those who need you. It was this distinctive approach, this way of viewing your responsibility, that was a decisive factor for our Board of Directors in making the grant.”
This grant is part of a wider effort to support the members of Greece’s armed forces, and by extension Greek society as a whole. It builds on previous grants to the 401 General Military Hospital of Athens for equipment and renovation and expansion works in the Radiotherapy Department and to the Evelpidon School for the renovation of its facilities and the provision of scholarships to officers.