D. Tzanakopoulos: Why does the government not provide data on deaths outside the ICU from coronavirus?

“Since yesterday, SYRIZA-PS is asking the Mitsotakis government to find out how many of our fellow citizens are losing their lives to coronavirus outside the ICU, but in silence,” said the secretary of the CoE. of SYRIZA-PS. Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on the occasion of the dramatic development of the pandemic and the relevant complaints of citizens. “Why does the government not provide this information?” continued (SKAI)

“A few days ago, Mr. Vasilakopoulos complained that the government was making a ‘fake ICU’ and the prosecutor intervened, because they did not even have the necessary equipment. Ms. Gaga said the same, admitting that we did not have the necessary medical and nursing staff in many cases, and this led to an increase in deaths “, noted Dim. Tzanakopoulos.

“Every day we have the number of intubated, new cases, dead. And the numbers are sad, ranking us in the worst position in the eurozone, if not in all of Europe, in proportion to our population. “Government and the data of deaths outside the ICU? We are living in tragic situations, northern Greece is collapsing, Attica is boiling, in western Greece we have only 2 ICU beds …”, he continued.

Dim. Tzanakopoulos even pointed out that “Mr. Sarrigiannis says that by Christmas we will have 11,000 cases per day, and the government is still discussing and reducing”. “I do not see a government willing to take the necessary measures to contain a pandemic, on the contrary it is inactive, it is less investing in communication and not in substance interventions,” he stressed.

“The recruitment of private doctors and the ordering of private ICU beds should have been done a long time ago. But the government once again chooses to take half measures after a holiday. We have been talking for a year about the need to order doctors and nursing staff from the private sector. sector and private ICU beds “, clarified the party secretary.

“We need to listen to the committee of experts that the government has completely discredited. The only way is to reach an agreement on a small group of experts who will take over the management of the pandemic from which the government has completely given up,” he said.

Regarding the issue of schools, he said: “The government and Ms. Kerameos are celebrating because the infection rate has dropped from 25% to 23%. Do you understand what that means? One in 4 students is sick! And the government is celebrating why they do not close “But they do not close because with her own decision the protocol of 50% + 1 is valid! We have to reduce the number of students per class, we have been asking for it for two years in the midst of a pandemic”.

Regarding the expenditures for health, he underlined: “In the draft budget for 2022 submitted by Mr. Staikouras, 900 million euros are cut by the NSS for the Covid expenditures”. As for the number of ICUs, which the government claims is 1,200, Dim. Tzanakopoulos complained that he “adds to the total number of ICUs the cardiac ICUs, and others that do not concern coronavirus cases”.