The health work of Capodistrias – historical retrospection of the work and organization of the health care management of the newly established Greek state by its first governor

The present paper aimed to collect and highlight one aspect of the work of Ioannis Capodistrias in an area that has been little explored, the healthcare planning of the newly established Greek state. An overwhelming percentage of the literature referring to the multifaceted personality of Ioannis Capodistrias studies
His activity in Italy where he studied Medicine and came into contact with modern knowledge, new ideas and trends,
His work as a doctor upon his return to Corfu after the end of his studies,
His activity in the political arena of the newly established State of the Ionian Islands,
His later life in Russia and then his activity as a diplomat and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia,
His role in the struggle for National rebirth and finally,
His work as the first Governor of Greece.
His achievements in the European diplomatic arena and his contribution to key issues (such as the Swiss and French issues) aiming at peace on the European continent, his vision for a free Ionian state at the beginning of his diplomatic career and a free Greek state thereafter, are able to give a global picture to the modern scholar of the dynamics of Ioannis Capodistrias as the multifaceted personality he was. The assignment of the governance of the newly established Greek state to Ioannis Capodistrias set the newly established Greek state, impoverished by the war, on a path of development that could stand in Europe together with the important powers of Epirus. However, his assassination violently halted this dynamic of development, constituting in essence the murder of the newly established state of Greece.