Thessaloniki is gaining two new, ultra-modern hospitals over the next four years, The new hospitals will be built in the village Kardia, in Mikra municipality, Thessaloniki. Their will be a children's hospital and an oncology hospital.

 

"The two hospitals will fill a huge void that has arisen in the past decades in the wider area of northern Greece," Avramopoulos said.

 

A little bit further to the south in Volos, President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Saturday inaugurated the N. and S. Tsalapatas Pottery Museum in the city,  on an official visit to the area where on Friday, he was proclaimed an honorary resident of Volos.

The inauguration ceremony for the museum was organised by the Piraeus Bank Group's Cultural Foundation.