Wednesday, April 15, 2026 was a day that began with an extremely urgent and critical incident at the Evangelismos public hospital in Athens. Everything started just a short time before the morning briefing at the Maximos Mansion, when 53-year-old Giorgos Mylonakis — the closest aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis — partially lost consciousness and collapsed. The mobile unit of the National Emergency Medical Service (EKAB) arrived within moments and swiftly transferred him from the Maximos Mansion to the Emergency Department of Evangelismos Hospital.
Within a very short time, doctors determined that this was a matter of life and death. Giorgos Mylonakis was immediately taken for a CT scan, which revealed a ruptured brain aneurysm at a particularly difficult location. He was intubated at once — a move that doctors would later describe as having been decisive in saving his life.
Giorgos Mylonakis: 10 days of agony
Later that same afternoon, Mylonakis successfully underwent an embolization procedure in the digital angiography suite at Evangelismos, allowing his treating physicians to completely eliminate the risk of a second aneurysm rupture.
Interventional neuroradiologist Eftychis Archontakis, who performed the successful embolization, commented on the Deputy Minister’s condition, stating among other things that “the next ten days are considered particularly critical for Giorgos Mylonakis’s recovery,” and notably emphasized that “the first few days are difficult and certain risks must be overcome.”
“It will be 10 days of agony. We acted quickly and the aneurysm was blocked immediately,” Dr. Archontakis explained.
Mitsotakis responds to press attacks against Mylonakis
On April 18, speaking from the floor of the Plenary Session of the Hellenic Parliament during a debate on the rule of law in Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke sharply against a newspaper’s published attacks targeting Mylonakis. According to those close to the Prime Minister, he “said some things straight from the heart, because Giorgos Mylonakis is one of his closest associates — not just now, at the Maximos Mansion, but for many years, going back to the Ministry of Administrative Reform. And the anguish of his family over their loved one fighting such a battle simply cannot be put into words.”
Mitsotakis visited his colleague and friend at the hospital on multiple occasions and was kept continuously informed by the treating physicians, as well as by Mylonakis’s wife, Tina Messaropoulou, once the couple had traveled to Germany for further care and recovery.
It goes without saying that the position of Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister firmly belongs to Giorgos Mylonakis, and the role will be waiting for him when his health allows him to return to his duties.
*Published in “Parapolitika”
