D. Tzanakopoulos: ‘Situations of complete collapse of the NSS under the responsibility of the government’

“Recently, our country has been experiencing situations that refer to the complete collapse of the National Health System and this is done with the full responsibility of the government,” said the secretary of the Central Committee of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, on MAX F 93.4 “of Patras, adding that” the Mitsotakis government has thrown in the towel, has resigned from management and has literally left society to its fate “.

He claimed that “the real picture is that every day we have almost 100 losses in our country and if this situation continues the report will be tragic”, while he commented that “people are tired of hearing the same” candy “from the government, that there are supposedly 1,300 ICUs, that doctors and auxiliary staff are being hired, while there is a completely different reality “. He stressed that “the NSS works today with less permanent health personnel than it had in 2019” and that SYRIZA continues to have no information from the Ministry of Health “about how many people die outside the ICU”, adding that the day before yesterday a trade unionist of his union health staff “publicly complained that there are 139 patients waiting to enter the ICU and can not find a bed”. He added that “Deputy Health Minister Gaga has sent a letter to cancel 80% of regular surgeries”.

“So if the government has done everything so well,” commented Tzanakopoulos, “it should explain to us how we have achieved these tragic results,” noting that “lately we are leading in deaths per million inhabitants in the whole Europe “.

The secretary of the Central Committee of SYRIZA-PS called on the government to take immediate measures: “to make the necessary recruitments here and now to strengthen the NSS, to order private clinics – and not the government to sell tsabouka to 30 private doctors- , to have a mass free prescription of tests for vaccinated and unvaccinated, to be recruited in schools in order to “break” the school departments – at the moment about 2,000 children are diagnosed with coronavirus every day “. He also said that a “serious campaign” is needed to increase the vaccination rate and “strict measures” to vaccinate police and security forces.

He also sharply criticized the government in relation to the economy. “At the moment, the average salary is collapsing and this is directly related to all the anti-labor regulations that the government has passed, with the very characteristic intervention of Mr. Hatzidakis to abolish the obligation of the employer to declare the overwork of his employees,” he said. He also noted that Greece today has the most expensive wholesale price in electricity throughout Europe “and government measures can not in the slightest reverse this reality.” “The only way to reverse this is to reduce – to the EU threshold – the excise duty on oil, gas and fuel, which will cost the budget 1.2 to 1.5 billion. “This is an amount that is completely manageable at the moment,” he said, stressing the “urgent need for the government to control the cartels”. He added that “precision strikes, in addition to energy, the essentials, foreshadowing a condition not only of energy poverty but also of material deprivation.”

Regarding the recent floods, he commented that “the people who have been affected by natural disasters all this time have seen in practice the government’s indifference, the government’s inability to deal with the immediate problems but also to implement the necessary projects in order to prevent such a recurrence.” disasters “. He said that “this applies to Evia, Ilia, Western Achaia, Karditsa that was hit by Ianos and that a year later nothing has happened.”

Mr. Tzanakopoulos underlined that “the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance will continue to highlight the great social impasses created by the policy of Mr. Mitsotakis”, will continue in a line of “militant and programmatic opposition”. He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was not the answer. left-wing, progressive citizens of the country “.