N. Iliopoulos: Mitsotaki capitulation brings closer the possibility of a new lockdown

The position of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance that “Mr. Mitsotakis has capitulated to the pandemic”, was repeated by the party’s spokesman, Nassos Iliopoulos (First program).

“As of November, we are already counting 1,487 losses,” he said, adding that “the government has not yet answered two critical questions: how many losses of our fellow citizens have occurred outside the ICU and what is the mortality rate in the ICU.”

“Today’s article in the Journal of the Editors states that in the last 4 days alone we have had 17 losses outside the ICU, while in the previous period there was a personal complaint of a man who lost his father, double vaccinated, implanted outside the ICU at the hospital in Nice.” Nassos Iliopoulos, emphasizing that “the government owes answers”.

“When two years after the pandemic started and one year after last November’s murder, we are not just in the same position but in a worse position, obviously there are responsibilities. And the responsibilities belong to the government,” he added.

“The capitulation to the pandemic chosen by Mr. Mitsotakis leads every day to a human tragedy, while bringing closer the possibility of a new lockdown,” said Nassos Iliopoulos.

Regarding the measures to deal with the situation, he stressed that “the urging of private clinics must proceed immediately so that they too enter the battle”. “It is completely different and it is not a solution to hire a private doctor, who closes his office and goes to a hospital,” the spokesman said.

He reiterated that “at the moment in public hospitals we have 2,500 fewer permanent employees compared to 2019”.

“Here and now the measure of teleworking must be returned wherever this is possible”, Nassos Iliopoulos also underlined, while he pointed out that “even if we accept the government narrative that we can not dilute the students in the classrooms – something that does not apply -, “Certainly, the mergers of 1,000 school departments nationwide, promoted by the government, creating classes with 28 and 29 students in the midst of a pandemic, should not proceed.”

Stressing the need for mass testing of the entire population, vaccinated and unvaccinated, he said: “Every day we have almost 8,000 cases, some of them are sure to have come in contact with vaccinated workers.” “It is not possible for this worker who has been in contact, despite being vaccinated, to go to work normally as if nothing is happening. He needs to have access to a free molecular test and this must be ensured by the government,” Nasos said. Iliopoulos.

“The fact that all this is not being done demonstrates the failure of government management,” he said. “And because we are no longer at the beginning of the pandemic, the shortcomings – especially in the health system – are clearly the result of conscious political choice,” he added.

He even recalled the complaint of Mr. Vasilakopoulos that “simple beds were christened ICU simply by a respirator, without the appropriate staff”, while referring to a fact: “when you take a radiologist and transfer him to an ICU bed, you can not objectively have the level of care that an ICU needs “.

“Still, the government continues not to take substantial measures either for the means of transport or for the mass worksplaces”, pointed out Nassos Iliopoulos.

Regarding vaccination, he stressed that “at the moment we have to run door to door”. “It is a very big problem that the mobile vaccination teams have not yet functioned as they should,” he said, adding that “in the 80s, in the most vulnerable group, we still have 20% unvaccinated.” “If we look at the Portuguese example which is one of the most successful examples of vaccination, we see that the key was to strengthen primary care,” commented Nassos Iliopoulos.

Finally, he noted the need for vaccination in the security forces to proceed with strict measures. “It is not possible for a police officer who checks a citizen’s vaccination certificate to be unvaccinated himself,” concluded the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesman.