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"This is a truly emotionally charged day. We are inaugurating the first great programme of presymptomatic screening and giving it the name of Fofi Gennimata, who fought with courage and self-sacrifice not only to overcome her own illness but also to inform other women about the importance of presymptomatic screening," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday at an event to present the "Fofi Gennimata" programme for free mammagrams to women aged 50 to 69 years old.

The state will honor the memory of the late veteran politician Fofi Gennimata by giving her name to a cancer prevention program, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata, 57, was laid to rest at the First Cemetery of Athens on Wednesday following a political career that began with her assisting her father as minister of PASOK to acquiring the profile of a politician who could keep her party together and was not tainted by any scandal.