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CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia District Court, damages at \u20ac925,00 must be paid out along with VAT, interest, and legal fees to Loizou.<\/p>\n
To prove her case in court, 18 witnesses testified on behalf of Loizou and her lawyer Michael Vorkas, including doctors and four officials from the Labour Inspection Department.To substantiate her case, two expert medical professors, Vassilios Makropoulos from the National School of Public Health of Greece, and UK specialist Michael G. Hanna, came to Cyprus from abroad.The judge who delivered the judgment in the Nicosia District Court, vindicated Loizou stating that \u201cthe plaintiff presents with post-encephalitis syndrome. It was also accepted by the court that the plaintiff presents symptoms consistent with viral encephalitis, a position which was strongly supported scientifically and fully before the court by Professor Michael G Hanna, Professor of Neurology.\u201dThe judge admitted the fact that Evdokia Loizou\u2019s health problem is a rare, extreme, and complex case.According to the court\u2019s findings, viral encephalitis is an infectious parasitic disease caused by the environment. This causes acquired damage to the brain causing various neurological symptoms even in the long term. It is clear from the court\u2019s findings that Evdokia Loizou suffered both great pain and suffering over a long period of time, and the residual effects that remained continue to plague her, affecting her quality of life, her personality, her activities, her career, and her daily life 17 years later, by imposing restrictions and prohibitions.The court added that the plaintiff \u201chas succeeded in proving the necessary causal link between her illness and the poor working conditions at CyBC\u201d. Back in 2012, Dr Athanasios Athanasiou from the Labour Inspection Department also reported that Loizou\u2019s disease was caused by her workplace.CyBC ended up \u2013 13 years after the decision of the Department of Labour Inspection \u2013 denying the result of the decision before the court.However, the court was not convinced by the CyBC\u2019s witness.All the journalist\u2019s witnesses left a positive impression on the court, unlike the only CyBC witness, Dr Elpidophoros Sotiriades, who unsuccessfully stated that there was no causative factor in causing Loizou\u2019s illness. The court found his opinion, as a non-neurologist, to be opinion and not convincing evidence.Follow the
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CyBC is ordered to pay over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou for contracting viral encephalitis due to her working conditions, as ruled by the Nicosia District Court. The compensation includes \u20ac925,000 in damages plus VAT, interest, and legal fees. Eighteen witnesses, including doctors and Labour Inspection Department officials, testified for Loizou. Expert medical professors Vassilios Makropoulos and Michael G. Hanna supported her case. The court confirmed Loizou suffers from post-encephalitis syndrome linked to her work environment at CyBC. Viral encephalitis, an infectious disease causing brain damage and long-term neurological symptoms, was determined to have significantly impacted Loizou’s quality of life and career. The court established a causal link between her illness and poor working conditions at CyBC, despite the broadcaster’s denial and an unconvincing testimony from their witness, Dr. Elpidophoros Sotiriades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[909,3,203,250,747,210,899,910,839,406,217,634,120,433,494],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-cybc","tag-cyprus","tag-environment","tag-google","tag-greece","tag-health","tag-interest","tag-journalist","tag-labour","tag-nicosia","tag-nicosia-court","tag-opinion","tag-picks4","tag-school","tag-uk"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n