The Spata Health Centre, on the corner of Chr. Bekas and 1 Pikermiou Street, is one of the ten Health Centres in Attica that operate a 24-hour on-call service and the only one serving the municipalities of Spata–Artemida and Pallini, with a catchment population of 94,373 residents. In 2025, the general medicine and pathology emergency clinic attended to 29,989 cases, or approximately 82 per day. The figures are contained in the response by the Deputy Minister of Health, Eirini Agapidakis, to a question posed by 13 MPs, dated 18 March 2026.
What you’ll find at night
The 24-hour on-call service is ‘mandatorily covered by general practitioners and/or internists’, the Ministry states. This means that after 10.00 pm there is no paediatrician, orthopaedic surgeon or cardiologist at the Centre. The Centre is equipped with a haematology and biochemistry analyser, a coagulation analyser and a portable troponin and blood gas analyser, so it can carry out basic tests in an emergency.
The two nearest hospitals are ‘Genimatas’ (15.2 km, approximately 28 minutes) and Sismanogleio (16.6 km, approximately 23 minutes). In the event of a medical emergency, call the National Ambulance Service (EKAV) on 166 or 112.
What’s only open in the morning
- X-rays: Monday to Friday 08:00–14:00. The radiologist is only available on Friday mornings for consultations. The number of radiology examinations fell from 9,675 in 2023 to 4,952 in 2024.
- Microbiology: Monday to Friday 07:00–14:00. Laboratory tests rose from 28,377 in 2023 to 63,998 in 2024.
- Paediatrics: 3,612 emergency and 2,176 routine appointments in 2025, both down from 2023 (5,302 and 3,717).
- Orthopaedics: daily, with a doctor travelling from the Rafina Health Centre; 1,201 emergency appointments in 2025.
- Ophthalmologist: Tuesdays only, from the Markopoulo Health Centre.
- Also: cardiology, neurology, dentistry, surgery, ENT, dietitian 14:00–22:00, medical examiner 10:00–12:00, vaccinations, physiotherapy, Pap smear and HPV tests.
The normal working hours are 07:00–22:00 in two shifts, for the duration of the building’s energy efficiency upgrade (contract dated 31 October 2023). Due to the works, the physiotherapy clinic was relocated in 2024 to the 1st Spata Senior Citizens’ Centre, and the gynaecological and dental clinics to the Cultural Centre, following a letter from the Mayor.
Staff
In May 2025, there were 21 doctors in 19 permanent posts, 14 nurses in 12 posts and 28 other staff members in 35 posts. Since 2020, four permanent general practitioners have been appointed and three locum doctors have been recruited; other posts have remained unfilled because the lists of locum doctors have been exhausted. Psychiatric, ophthalmological and radiology cases are referred to the Health Centres in Koropi, Rafina, Markopoulo and Lavrio.
The appendices
The Geraka Medical Centres (Boeotia and Thessaloniki) are open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 08:00 to 15:00, and the Anthousa Clinics (Anthousa Avenue) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 08:00 to 15:00, with a cardiology clinic. The MPs’ question called for a Health Centre in Pallini; the Ministry replied that residents “are served by the Spata Health Centre”.
For the residents of Artemida, there are also the Municipal Clinics, although they are not on call.
Source: Ministry of Health, reply ref. no. 3390/18 March 2026 to question 2451/20 January 2026, and reply No. 12745/20 May 2025 to question No. 3984/14 March 2025, Hellenic Parliament.
