The father of the 55-year-old nurse who died at the General Hospital of Nafplio after collapsing while on duty is enduring the most acute pain a person can experience. According to what he told Star TV, medical staff spent 45 minutes trying to resuscitate her. “She just left us, suddenly,” said the devastated father, still unable to fully comprehend what had happened. “The doctors tried for 45 minutes to bring her back, but they couldn’t. We simply cannot recover from this,” he said. The 55-year-old had already known great sorrow in her life — three years ago, her daughter passed away. Her father said she never truly got over that loss. A relative echoed this, describing her as hardworking and well-liked, but deeply affected: “She was a wonderful person, always working and never causing any trouble. She had been struggling emotionally since her daughter’s death three years ago.”
Tragedy in Nafplio: A timeline of events
The nurse’s presence at the General Hospital of Nafplio proved fatal on the afternoon of Monday, June 15, even though the hospital was not on emergency duty that day — shortly after five road accident victims were brought in. According to the head of the hospital workers’ union, the 55-year-old was the only nurse on duty in the emergency department at the time: “When a hospital is not on call, staffing is reduced. Our colleague was the sole nurse in the emergency room and was called upon to manage an extremely demanding situation involving multiple trauma patients,” he said.
As he explained, after handling the road accident emergency, the 55-year-old collapsed. He clarified that no violent incident had taken place, but there was underlying pressure and intense stress, as many relatives of the injured had flooded the area: “There was no attack against her. However, there was enormous tension, as a large number of people were in the emergency department all talking at once, creating an extremely high-pressure environment for the staff.”
The relevant authorities are now investigating the exact circumstances surrounding the 55-year-old nurse’s death, and the results of the forensic examinations are pending, which will clarify the precise cause of death.
The post by Adonis Georgiadis
Greece’s Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, also addressed the tragic incident involving the death of the 55-year-old nurse at Nafplio Hospital, sharing a statement by Vasilis Bavellas, president of the hospital’s workers’ union.
According to Mr. Bavellas, the nurse’s cardiac arrest is not connected to the Roma family members who were present at the hospital at the time.
“The incident involving the death of our nurse and the Roma family members who were causing a commotion are unrelated, contrary to what was reported yesterday. They were not aggressive — they were shouting and crying because they had an unconscious 8-year-old child with them and believed the child had died. The child had not died,” he stated.
The workers’ union president also noted that “it is true that an emergency situation can put enormous strain on a nurse,” but added that “the truth is that our nurse should not have been in the emergency department at that time, because we were not on duty yesterday.”
Reposting the statement, the Minister of Health said he had investigated the matter and concluded that no blame should be placed on the child’s relatives.
“I investigated the incident and it should not be attributed to the Roma who were there, anxiously waiting for news about their child. This was not an incident of violence against our staff. Such incidents have occurred before, but not yesterday,” wrote Mr. Georgiadis.
The minister closed his post by expressing his condolences to the nurse’s family.
Adonis Georgiadis’ full post on the death of the nurse at Nafplio Hospital
The Health Minister’s post in full:
“I am sharing the statement by Mr. Vasilis Bavellas, president of the Nafplio Hospital Workers’ Union, regarding yesterday’s tragic incident involving the death of the nurse at the hospital from cardiac arrest:
‘The incident involving the death of our nurse and the Roma family members who were causing a commotion are unrelated, contrary to what was reported yesterday. They were not aggressive — they were shouting and crying because they had an unconscious 8-year-old child with them and believed the child had died. The child had not died. It is true that an emergency situation can place enormous pressure on a nurse. However, the truth is that our nurse should not have been in the emergency department at that time, because we were not on duty yesterday.’
I investigated the incident and it should not be attributed to the Roma who were there, anxiously waiting for news about their child. This was not an incident of violence against our staff. Such incidents have occurred before, but not yesterday.
My condolences to her family.”
Αναπαράγω την δήλωση του Προέδρου του Συλλόγου εργαζομένων του Νοσοκομείου Ναυπλίου κ. Βασίλη Μπαβέλλα για το χθεσινό τραγικό περιστατικό με τον θάνατο της νοσηλευτού στο Νοσοκομείο από ανακοπή:
«Το περιστατικό με τον θάνατο της νοσηλεύτριας μας και τους Ρομά και τους συγγενείς…
— Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης (@AdonisGeorgiadi) June 16, 2026
