Confrontation Ad. Georgiadi – SYRIZA for molecular test prices and KEELPNO

The prices of the molecular tests but also the judicial developments with KEELPNO and the journalist Costas Vaxevanis were at the center of the parliamentary controversy between the government and SYRIZA during the discussion of the bill with the interventions in the competition law, in the Production and Trade committee.

Greece has the lowest, on average, PCR and rapid prices of all other EU countries, said the Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis, who, speaking earlier in Parliament, submitted the prices of PCRs in Greece and other European countries. . Mr. Georgiadis added, however, that Cyprus has indeed achieved a lower price in PCR, in some chains, but “has a higher ceiling than Greece”, but on average Greece has the lowest prices in the EU. He urged the parties to read the announcements of “all the federations and the associations of clinicians”, to point out that “everyone says that the ceiling of 47 euros is low and that it creates a question of survival in some laboratories”.

“If SYRIZA believes that the ceiling should not be at 47 euros but to move to another level, go out and say more ceiling, you suggest”, said Adonis Georgiadis and added that the bigger a diagnostic chain is, because it may have economies of scale, may have lower costs. “Everyone understands that the cost margin of a laboratory that does hundreds of thousands of PCRs a month is different from the cost margin of a small clinical laboratory that makes a few hundred. So the ceiling came at exactly the point where our services “and the laboratory laboratories have shown us that we do not allow any small one to close,” said the Minister of Development & Investment, adding that anyone pushing for a lower ceiling essentially says to close small laboratories and let all citizens go to the big chains. “This would be the greatest gift we could give them. The official request of the big chains is to lower the ceiling and you support their official request every day”, said Mr. Georgiadis and warned that if the small ones are closed laboratories and address the citizens to the large chains of diagnostics for PCR, then the waiting time for the results will increase and therefore the ceiling, for economic, social and health reasons, must remain where it entered.

Responding to the request for inclusion of molecular tests in prescribing, the minister stressed that “prescribing is the responsibility of another ministry and not the Ministry of Development, because it is a matter that has to do with EOPYY” and therefore this is a question that should not be asked same but to the Minister of Health. He said, however, that in case the PCR was included in the prescription “we would have issues at what price” because “if the price is 47 euros it means clawback about 50%. If it goes in double price, someone will go to jail. this clawback test, everyone else will revolt “.

The step was preceded by the SYRIZA MP Christos Giannoulis who intervened in the discussion of the bill, touching on the judicial development of the investigation for the recruitments in KEELPNO and for the issue of the ceiling in the PCR tests. “You have made accusations against people of the Left, talking about liars, swindlers, diminished morale of political action and tactics. I ask you, from March 2020 to January 2022, all the citizens, the families that are experiencing a crisis. accuracy and poverty inherited from the financial crisis, how did you protect them from the overpriced cost of molecular tests? From March 2020 until a few weeks ago, every household that had to take a molecular test found, at best, 60 euros “Several months passed, when the society had the demand, for an intervention that would protect the people who do not have”, said the SYRIZA MP and added: “You can not justify the fact that, after the change of government, the only The honest government in this country, which did not put its finger on the honey, is the government of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA “. Mr. Giannoulis called on Adonis Georgiadis to respond to the “referral to a degree of felony, people he knows, his associates, for the case of KEELPNO”.

“You at SYRIZA must be something like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On Sunday, your leader wrote an article in the newspaper DOCUMENTO, defending Mr. Costas Vaxevanis as strongly as he could, and accusing the Greek Justice, as its subordinate. because a senior judicial official of the Supreme Court summons him as an apologist, that is, as an accused, for four serious crimes, and what was SYRIZA’s reaction to the issue of the prosecution against Mr. Vaxevanis, by a prosecutor of the Supreme Court “That it is a manipulated persecution by the Mitsotakis regime which will fall very quickly”, said the Minister of Development & Investment and commented: “Since yesterday you are celebrating because some other prosecutors decided to refer some of my associates to the court for the case So let me ask you, Mr. Giannoulis, is the prosecutor’s referral a conviction? or in the western world, is it condemnation? Because if he is convicted, Mr. Costas Vaxevanis has been convicted. On the other hand, in the case of Mr. Vaxevanis, I did not even tweet, from the time the apology call was made. Do you know why; Respecting the presumption of innocence “.

“Either the presumption of innocence applies to everyone, obviously to Mr. Vaxevanis and therefore obviously to Mr. Poulis and Ms. Theofylatou and all the others, or it does not apply to anyone. Choose,” Adonis Georgiadis told SYRIZA seats and added: “I say, until there is a conviction in court, we politicians, it is good not to get involved. But not to tell me that I evade the issue of KEELPNO, I want to say that I I will certainly be a witness for the defense of these people, I know very well that they are completely innocent, and Mrs. Androniki Theofylatou, who is also a close associate of mine, now at the Ministry of Development, I can tell you that she is the best “I have a colleague, the most hardworking. I believe that in KEELPNO they cry with black tears that they lost an employee, that they lost an employee who works part-time, from morning to night and with such great efficiency”.

Mr. Georgiadis stated that “there was also a post by Mr. Poulis, in which he refers to the answer given to the Parliament by the current Minister of Health and in which he had stated that there was no damage from the recruitments in KEELPNO and that an investigation is underway for 8.5 million euros that Mr. Polakis had given illegally “and commented that Mr. Polakis” is now playing it dude because he knows that the case is statute-barred, because the file for 8.5 million came after the statute of limitations had occurred – and this is problem of the institutions- because such a serious complaint, the Justice sent it to the Parliament after the period for the referral had expired “.

“Unlike you, I trust the Greek Justice. I do not consider the Greek Justice subordinate to either our government or SYRIZA. I questioned the times in which the Justice moves. It is an institutional issue. I do not consider that there is deceit. At the Fund “We have included a special reform in order to speed up the court proceedings”, Mr. Georgiadis also said and insisted: “I did not attribute deceit to Justice. But I said that its slow pace, in this case, benefited Mr. Polakis. also that when these children are tried, the Greek people will find out if they are innocent or guilty. Today we are talking about they are innocent. They have not been convicted by any court. fundamental value of the western world, in which the presumption of innocence is the alpha and omega, of the administration of Justice, which is why we respect the presumption virus of innocence of Kostas Vaxevanis. That is why you can not respect the presumption of innocence in the case of KEELPNO or anyone else that does not suit you politically “.

Mr. Georgiadis’s previous tenure at the Ministry of Health was also part of the discussion. “When I took over, the uninsured were out of the system. Indeed, the hospitals charged them for all their hospitalizations if they went to the hospital, and the pharmacies paid out of pocket. When I handed over the baton to the next one, in June 2014, the Primary health care was free for the uninsured, the uninsured in pharmacies, I took their medicines, exactly on the same terms as the insured and the uninsured could be admitted to hospitals free of charge, with an intermediate panel of doctors This committee that I had put in the hospitals was abolished by the law of Xanthou-Polaki. They also put the illegal immigrants. These are the two changes of their law. “coverage of the insured and the uninsured, was preceded by a study I submitted to the troika and the troika allowed its vote,” the minister said.

Commenting on the criticisms he receives for his political beliefs, Mr. Georgiadis referred to the well-known saying of Winston Churchill “if you do not become a communist until you are 25, you have no heart and if you remain after 25, you have no mind”, to He remarked: “Communism can not stand any comparison with capitalism. In Greece, we have a historical responsibility. To finally defeat the ideological hegemony of the Left. Throughout the post-colonial period, Greece never had the opportunity to get rid of this ideological “The opportunity was given to us by Alexis Tsipras and his government. The Greek people, before Tsipras, when they heard that someone was a leftist, looked at him with respect and awe. After Tsipras, he spat on his body.”

“Obviously your problem is the ideological hegemony of the Left. Only this hegemony is based on the blood of the people who liberated the country in ’45, when your ideological ancestors had raged with the Germans. I became a leftist when all my the family, who are teachers, had to get a paper from the mayor, to be appointed “, commented the SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis who called on the government to put pricing and prescription in PCR at 25 euros and stressed that the 47 euro ceiling is a gift in large chains, to close small diagnostic laboratories. He described the ND law for the uninsured as “zucchini”, noting that it was the SYRIZA government that wrote off millions of euros in debts that had been sent to the tax authorities for hospitalization of people in hospitals. He also said that the truth, with what happened to the detriment of KEELPNO’s budget, will come out, while for the journalist Costas Vaxevanis he said that “you set up a lawsuit against him because he revealed that Novartis paid in America because politicians and officials in Greece caught it”. .

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