Adonis Georgiadis: “ESY saves thousands of lives every day” – What he replied to the KKE

In a question by the President and 20 MPs of the Communist Party for the consequences of government policy, he replied to the House. “The NSO has no responsibility for the tragic loss of man by the naval flare, as does the cancer patient who committed suicide, said, among other things, the Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis. On the case, in particular, with the flare, the minister said: “I refer you to the interview of the hospital’s President of trade unionists, Mr. Manousakis, who declares on camera that the hospital’s surgery clinic was not public. The hospital may be on duty every day, but his surgery clinic did not. The Clinical Surgery Director had stated his availability, as often happens in provincial hospitals, and was there when the ambulance arrived with this unfortunate young man. When I called him personally to find out what really happened, he said that even the whole hospital was over the man at the time the flare hit him, they couldn’t save him. Is it possible, gentlemen of the Communist Party, that such a tragic incident you take advantage of to curse the NSA and the doctors? The National Health System has many problems. No doubt it does. But not all are “black and red”. He saves every day and thousands of lives. And we can’t just call it votes and political impressions. Let’s get this straight. For this tragic incident the National Health System had no responsibility.” In the case of our cancer patient again, the Minister of Health reiterated that the patient did not commit suicide because he was in a lack of medication. “For the other populism monument you mentioned, that the cancer patient committed suicide due to the lack of medicine, everything I have said is electronically recorded in the hospital’s electronic protocol. He didn’t come to his appointment on March 4 and the medicine was waiting for him. Is there a shortage of etopodide? Of course there was. But not that you couldn’t find the medicine, it never happened. And why was there a shortage? Because at the time the lot went to load to come to Greece, the company announced that it found an error in the lot and withdrew it. Not for the parallel imports you said. From the company’s safety reserve there was not a single patient left without a drug etopodide for the period of lack,” said Georgiades. For diagnostic tests The charges for diagnostic tests concern those who want to make use of private diagnostic centers. In public diagnostic centers participation is zero, said Mr Georgiadis, recalling: “when we the memorial ministers of the past and during my previous term had given access to the private competition centres of EOPY, until we built EOPYY and we the “bad capitalists” gave access to the private diagnostic centres, people were going to the former IKA were sitting in line and paying them all out of his pocket. Then you shouted you don’t want private people in health. Now you’re shouting why in these private centres, which you don’t want, we’re putting in EUR 1. That is, all yours.” Afternoon surgery: We give freedom of choice “I hear about afternoon surgeries that there is no staff, doctors are opposed, the NSS world is opposed, patients are opposed, public opinion is opposed. Reform’s been running for 10 days. Evening surgeries have already started in about 70 hospitals. By the end of next month it will be 100 out of 125, maybe a little more. Some hospitals have placed afternoon surgeries with two surgical beds and some with three surgical beds each afternoon. In the CAT, for example, from 17 surgical clinics already started conducting afternoon surgeries all 17. When all 17 clinics participate in the reform of afternoon surgeries, how opposed do you think hospital staff can be to this reform?” the minister asked. “We do not force anyone to do mandatory afternoon surgeries. What we did is that we give freedom of choice. We say ‘we let you free to decide whether you want to do or don’t want to do it’. The same to surgeons, the same to anesthesiologists, the same to nurses, and the patients who will choose whether they want or do not want to go,” said the Minister of Health. For hospitals With regard to hospitals, and hospitals in Piraeus in particular, the minister stressed that the Janeo hospital was renovated after 60 years, while through the Recovery Fund 80 of the 125 hospitals of the NSO are renovated, most for the first time after 30 and 40 years. At the same time, 156 of the 318 Health Centers are being renovated. Over half a billion euros in total the resources of the Recovery Fund allocated to the renovation of hospital building equipment. “We are entering,” said Mr Georgiadis, “the period with the largest building renovation program of the National Health System since its establishment”. For staff and remuneration “In 2019 the total of staff serving in the National Health System were 100,000 workers. Today there are 107,000 workers, 7% more. With our hiring this year, which is about another 7,000, we’ll be 15,000 more. In other words, the staff that we keep talking about the terrible and terrible deficiencies it has are 15% more than the day we took over the country’s governance. With an average salary of 20% more than the day we took over the government of the country,” the Minister also stressed. For waiting in hospitals “There is no doubt that it is impossible to find a public system without waiting, even in the northern countries of Europe, the richest, Sweden or Norway. A wait in one of Stockholm’s largest hospitals on call day is seven hours. There’s always all the hospitals on call, no system without waiting on the planet. What do we tell people, lie? But what do we do now? We are doing this: we are trying to find a solution to a real problem and build the new NSA, which we want to manage to build and work,” said Georgiadis. Source iatropedia.gr