The official announcement of the resignation is considered a matter of time of the president of the National Public Health Organization, Theoklis Zaoutis. THE Professor of Pediatrics had assumed the leadership of EODY on October 2021while according to the information so far, he is succeeded by the professor of the University of Thessaly, Christos Hatzichristodoulou.

The reasons that prompted Mr. Zaoutis to leave EODY have not been made known.

However, according to reports, the replacement of Zautis had been launched before the flood in Thessaly and yesterday the new composition of the EODY Board of Directors was announced internally. Yes, yes was preceded by a recent legislative regulation of the Ministry of Health with changes in the structure of the organism.

The deputy minister is from the first moment in the field with the new President Chr. HatzichristodoulouProfessor of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Medicine at the University of Thessaly, who until recently was head of the Hygiene and Epidemiology Laboratory of the University of Thessaly. In fact, this Laboratory is also a Regional Public Health Laboratory of EODY and has EODY staff on a permanent basis in the laboratory.

The Deputy Minister cooperates both with Mr. Hatzichristodoulou and with the heads of the laboratorybut also the EODY Mobile Teams that assist in the work of epidemiological surveillance in the region.

Mr. Zaoutis announced his resignation a few hours before the publication of the relevant gazettewhich was to take place today.