ATHENS, July 25 -- Greece managed to effectively address the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic so far, despite the wounds in the national health system after a decade of a financial crisis, by focusing on prevention rather than treatment, Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told a forum in Athens this week.
As early as January, authorities had drafted a list of COVID-19 referral hospitals nationwide and personnel at medical centers and airports had been trained to deal with cases, before the first infection was diagnosed in the country on Feb. 26, while measures were implemented with no delay to contain the virus' spread, he said.
The current pandemic underscores how significant prevention is, and prevention is key in both ancient Greek and Chinese traditional medicine, Greek experts told Xinhua in Athens in recent interviews.
"The coronavirus is here to stay and we must come to terms with this. Public healthcare conditions should change and what is more important for me is that the crisis highlighted how significant prevention is," Professor Panagiotis Behrakis, Pulmonologist-Intensivist, said.
From the time of Hippocrates in the 5th century BC, who is considered as the Father of Western Medicine, medicine in the Western world has been based on three pillars -- prevention, diagnosis and therapy, he explained.
In recent decades scientists have made strides using technology for diagnostic and therapeutic reasons, which however have not been matched with a similar development in the sector of prevention, with the exception of vaccines, the professor noted.
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