Staff shortages are crippling public hospitals across Greece’s island regions, with critical specialties going unfilled and operating rooms standing idle, a hospital workers federation warned ahead of a major health rally on Crete on Wednesday.

Greece’s National Health System is coming under severe strain from chronic understaffing, the POEDHN union representing hospital workers warns.

Staff shortages are crippling public hospitals across Greece’s island regions, with critical specialties going unfilled and operating rooms standing idle, a hospital workers…