N. Iliopoulos: Mitsotaki’s criminal responsibility is the existence of 152 intubated patients outside the ICU

“The government has capitulated to the daily tragedy we live in the pandemic,” said SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos, speaking on “Alpha 96.5 Thessaloniki”.

“At the moment, Greece is twice above the European average in daily losses per million inhabitants,” he said, adding that “when we are in this position, we are now talking about criminal mistakes.” On the occasion of yesterday’s 116 deaths, he again asked the government “how many of the daily losses occur outside the ICU”. “The government must answer why two years after the start of the pandemic, one year after last November and December last year in northern Greece, we are not just in the same position but in a worse position,” he said, adding that when last night we had 152 people intubated outside the ICU, the responsibility is criminal and has a name, Kyriakos Mitsotakis “.

Mr. Iliopoulos stated that the director of the ICU in Papanikolaou, Mr. Kapravelos, “said it clearly: outside the ICU the patient has no luck” and that “according to research, the mortality rates in people who are tentatively intubated outside the ICU – while they should be intubated in ICUs – they reach 97% to 99% “. He commented that “at the same time we heard Mr. Mitsotakis say that it is essentially the same as being intubated inside or outside the ICU” and that “he appeared as a denier of science”.

In addition, in his presence last night in the main news bulletin of “Star Central Greece”, Mr. Iliopoulos accused the government that “it has no plan for what should be done immediately”. He stated in particular that “we have 500,000 citizens over 60 who have not been vaccinated and 1.5 million citizens over 60 who need to have a booster dose”, noting that “even at the maximum vaccination rate, for the next one and a half to two months we will we have 80 to 100 dead every day. ” The SYRIZA spokesman stressed the need for the immediate closure of private clinics “and the recruitment of 800 doctors on waiting lists in the public health system”. re-apply the teleworking measure, where possible and do really massive testing.He called a self-test before Christmas a “mockery”.

Among other things, he stressed that “the vaccine must be a public good and the European Parliament has twice voted in favor of this”, however “ND MEPs voted against the recent relevant amendment”. “Anyone who in the current situation denies that the vaccine is a public good and refuses to revoke the patent is literally committing a crime against human life,” he said. Regarding the vaccination, he argued that “we need to follow the successful example of Portugal”, which “did not follow any measures of economic blackmail – such as the one imposed by Mr. Mitsotakis with the fine of 100 euros”. “On the contrary,” he continued, “he strengthened primary care, vaccinated door-to-door, organized mobile units involving psychologists, social workers, and local people. In this way, he managed to vaccinate almost the entire population over 12 years old “.

Asked about the results of the first round of elections at KINAL, he commented that “what we saw on Sunday night is that the polls once again seem that instead of capturing a reality, they are trying to shape it.” “The huge discrepancy between the election result and what was recorded all the previous time in the polls is not an issue that concerns only the political system but also the citizens. Because it has to do with the quality of democracy,” he stressed.

SOURCE: AMPE