The emergency department of Nikaia General Hospital in Piraeus was evacuated on Friday night due to a fire in the basement of the building.
Twenty-one firefighters and seven tenders attended the scene and managed to bring the fire under control.
The emergency department was on duty at the time.
According to Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who visited the scene and posted photos on his social media, the fire broke out in an empty corridor where boxes of old documents were kept. He said the cause of the fire remains unknown.
“No patient was in danger. As a precaution we evacuated an area in the emergency department due to smoke. Due to the inability of the radiology department to operate, we are currently not receiving new cases, which we are directing to other hospitals. The patients who were already [at the hospital] and needed admission went through their admission process normally. The hospital will immediately return to full operation,” he said.