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Onassio Cardiac Surgery Centre

Kallithea Municipality, Greece · built 1992

The Onassio Cardiac Surgery Centre or simply Onassio is a model hospital, specialized in adult and pediatric heart diseases, and is a donation of the non-profit Alexander S. Onassis Foundation to the Greek State. It is a non-profit legal entity under private law and operates under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Health. It is located in Kallithea, Athens, at the end of Syngrou Avenue (Syngrou 356). The Onassio Cardiac Surgery Center was the scene where the last act of the active political life of Andreas Papandreou, prime minister of Greece and protagonist of its public life for decades, took place. For 4 months, from 29 November 1995 to 21 March 1996, Papandreou was hospitalized at Onassio submitting his resignation as prime minister on 15 January 1996.

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