A. Xanthos: They are in a hurry to launch their initial plan for the reduction of the NSS

“At a time when the health tragedy in the country is in progress and at a time when the climate in the NSS is very heavy because its staff is fighting an unequal battle with far fewer forces, the Minister of Health, Mr. Plevris, is doing everything he can to undermine morale. of people and to send a message of devaluation and dissolution of public care “, underlines in a statement the Head of Health of SYRIZA-PS, Andreas Xanthos.

As he notes, “his” trajectory shots “for the new Health Charter, which will provide for mergers and closures of hospitals, as well as the opening of public health structures to private investors, prove that the ND government and he personally have the only plan for post-covid era is the privatization of the public health system “.

“No interest in the new needs and challenges posed by the pandemic (PHC, family doctor, community care, mobile units, home care, emergency medicine, infection clinics, recovery-rehabilitation, mental health, etc.), nor the necessary institutional reorganization of the NSS (new organizations of RIA-Hospitals-KY, interconnection of PHC-Public Health etc) “, emphasizes and comments:” Before the end of the health crisis, the government, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health rush to start to shrink the NSS and create a “living space” for the market “.

“Only the lesson of the pandemic is the need for brave investments in public health systems and public health services. The exact opposite, that is, from what an ideological government does, which at the same time faithfully serves health entrepreneurs”, concludes A. Xanthos .