Athens, 19 March 2025 (MIA) — Four more people injured in the March 16 fire in a Kochani nightclub were flown on a Hellenic Air Force C-27J Spartan aircraft to Athens during the night for medical care in Greek hospitals, MIA's Athens correspondent reports.

Greece is providing treatment for 12 burn victims. Five of them have been hospitalized in Thessaloniki, and seven in Athens.

The four young people transported late Tuesday night were admitted to two Athens hospitals around 2 am.

This was the second Athens-Skopje flight in the past 24 hours, after Monday night three burn victims were taken out of the country for medical treatment.

Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiades posted on X that the airlift of burn patients was carried out by the Hellenic Emergency Medical Service, with the assistance of the Hellenic Air Force, in response to North Macedonia's request for help within the European Civil Protection Mechanism.

According to Georgiades, six of the 12 burn patients hospitalized in Greece are receiving medical care at 401 General Military Hospital of Athens. 

Three are at 251 Air Force General Hospital of Athens, another three are at George Papanikolaou General Hospital of Thessaloniki, and two are at 424 General Military Training Hospital of Thessaloniki.

The Greek health minister noted that the Athens and Thessaloniki burn wards remain to be on high alert.

The Greek Embassy in Skopje, in a social media post, thanked the Hellenic Emergency Medical Service for organizing and coordinating the airlift.

"Our solidarity with North Macedonia is strong," the embassy wrote. mr/