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Al. Tsipras: The government discredits the NSS

To stop the abandonment of the NHS and to give incentives to doctors and staff”, was the main message of Alexis Tsipras during his visit to the General Hospital of Ikaria, where he had the opportunity to discuss with workers about the problems they face.

The president of SYRIZA-PS spoke of “an image of abandonment” based on what the workers conveyed to him, who noted as the biggest problem of basic shortages in key specialties. Mr. Tsipras pointed out in terms of the incentives that should be given to the medical staff, that SYRIZA has included in its program the position for an introductory salary of 2,000 euros. “He will raise the salary but there is no other solution. Bad lies. When a doctor does his specialty, he knows that he will go to England and get 6,000 and 7,000 or respectively in Cyprus. Why should he sit here and get 800 euros,” he said for doctors, noting at the same time that they must join the heavy and unhealthy nurses and staff. He emphasized that, however, “the direction that exists at the moment, the “other” perception of the welfare state is that there need not be many public hospitals. We also have private ones”. “The direction is the obsolescence of the NHS. We are simply not talking about obsolescence, we are talking about the collapse of the NHS”, he underlined.

Employees of the hospital, according to party sources, told the president of SYRIZA-PS that the main problem is that there is no pathologist, that there is a surgeon but no anesthetist, so surgeries cannot be performed and that in one month there were 7 transfers due to lack of anesthesiologist. In particular, the representative of the workers described the situation by saying: “If you were a resident here on the island you would wait for a prescription for a long time. In the emergency room, you would be served by an unqualified rural doctor. Half the shifts a month do not have an operatory, as a result of which people are forced to pay. And finally, if you had a child you wouldn’t have a pediatrician here to see him.” Other workers noted that there are not enough nurses, with the result that “the artificial kidney unit is unable to serve the island’s kidney patients”. “At the moment I am working with an auxiliary nurse transferred from the hospital in Voula. The other two nurses who came now are not trained. There is a huge pressure from 15 people who need dialysis and I cannot serve them due to staffing,” said nephrologist Stavros Stathakis, according to the same sources. He added that the law says about two nurses per shift, but there are none, and that it provides for two doctors, but there are none. “Now we work with one nurse per shift and I have a trainee who I am constantly worried about making a mistake and I will have to be on top of her all the time. And we are talking about a public hospital that has other needs. That is, a call to the emergency room. Incidents in the pathology department where we don’t have a pathologist. An orthopedic fills the position. Anything to do with a series of cases who will he call? The one closest to the pathologist. Fifteen patients can’t be covered with three machines that become irregular 4,” he continued. . In addition, representatives of nurses reported that during the pandemic the Ikaria hospital, without being a reference hospital, served and continued to treat cases. “Without x-ray, without pcr, with rapid test, as a result of Christmas the coronavirus escaped inside the hospital and infected doctors, staff and relatives of patients”, they said.

Meeting with the mayor of Ikaria. “Extend insularity to fuel and food,” emphasized Al. Tsipras

The “tragic deficiencies” in the island’s hospital were also raised in the meeting that Alexis Tsipras then had with the mayor of the island, Nikos Kalaboya, with the official opposition leader stressing that “health is a matter of security for the residents”. “The image from the hospital I visited is an image of abandonment. It cannot have a surgeon without an anesthesiologist, so it cannot perform operations. It cannot not have a pathologist. And it cannot in a hospital in Ikaria that has long distances to have only one ambulance shift,” said Mr. Tsipras. He emphasized that these “are critical issues that we must look at as a State. And you as a local government, the burden falls on you because you are the wave breaker of citizens’ dissatisfaction, but also the one that citizens expect to put pressure on the government and find solutions” .

Referring to the overall issue of insularity, Mr Tsipras noted that the transport equivalent reform introduced by the SYRIZA government should be maintained and extended. “The issue of insularity is crucial. Not only to give citizens a sense of justice and equality, but also to maintain the evolution of life and development on our islands. Because if we don’t deal with it, the ability of a new person to stay on the island and not become an immigrant,” he said. He underlined that “the reform of the transport equivalent that we started in 2018 must be extended, not curtailed. We are out of the memorandums now”. “What does transport equivalent mean? That for every native and every visitor even for a limited number of tickets the cost of travel will be equivalent to travel inland. Let’s extend it to fuel and food. You don’t have to pay tax because you decided to stay on an island. I say this because petrol costs 30-40 cents more than in the mainland, the same in the supermarket,” he stressed. The president of SYRIZA stressed that “this abandonment, which concerns not only Ikaria but a series of islands, must stop”, adding that we should “give a lot of weight to our people, to the islanders to give them the opportunity to stay “, as “without happy people you cannot build places to go forward”.

Source: Capital

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