In the incident with the Saint Sophia Children’s Hospital, the Minister of Education was mentioned. According to what Adonis Georgiades said, maintenance at the elevator in Saint Sophia Children had been done normally. CORVERSE The last maintenance of all lifts at Children’s Hospitals had taken place in early January 2025 and there were no findings of damage. This is supported by the Administration of the “Saint Sophia” Children’s Hospital, information conveyed in the morning by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who stressed that there was no “fall” elevator, as reported by trade union doctors. “There was no fall of the elevator, there was damage. She stopped and the passenger came out safely. There was no serious incident in Children. (…). The last maintenance took place on January 9, 25, or a few days ago. Instead of stopping on the straight side of the floor the elevator stopped shortly below, the door opened normally and the passenger came out normally,” he specifically said. Speaking this morning on Talk Radio, the Minister of Health added that this incident has been recorded on the platform of ODIPY, the Agency responsible for controlling the safety and quality of services provided in hospitals. CORVERSE “The incident has been recorded on a platform we have built at ODIP to control quality in hospitals and see where there are problems found from there trade unionists and posted it. There was no fall elevator. That kind of damage to my life has occurred dozens. Yesterday’s incident in holy wisdom has nothing to do with the Red Cross incident. On the Red Cross thing what fell the elevator. And fortunately it was just before the ground and we had no accident,” he concluded. What hospital doctors support According to the complaints, the elevator experienced severe malfunction, while an on-call intern was on board him. The incident took place during the early morning hours (2 am) of Wednesday (15/01/2025) when the doctor entered the elevator from the 7th floor of the hospital (where and on-call rooms) for having been called for an incident. The elevator went “deep” and stopped abruptly between 3 th and 2nd floors. “Unfortunately the colleague was not injured,” said hospital doctors of the ARSI (Left Radical Doctors’ Partnership), to whom OENGE’s secretary general, Panos Papanikolaou, who posted social media. “It was also not trapped as the elevator door opened and the doctor came out like – like. It is noted that this lift is used daily by hospital staff but often also for the transport of patients, even newborns in incubators, severely suffering intubated children, etc.”, end up doctors in their announcement. Giannakos: I don’t know if there was a fall or if it broke down Speaking today to ANTI1 the president of the WTODINE, Michael Giannakos, said he was informed of the incident at the Children’s “Saint Sophia” late at night and as he pointed out, he still does not know details of what happened exactly and if the fall of the elevator at “Saint Sophia” brings together elements of the “Red Cross”. At the same time he argued that we should distinguish the two incidents. “On the Red Cross we had an elevator crash. I don’t know if the Children’s Hospital had an elevator crash or the elevator broke down. In Red almost four people died, in “Saint Sophia” did we fall from this high? Because I saw the elevator on the Red Cross, if we had the same fall, we would certainly have an injury to “Saint Sophia”. At the same time he noted that hospitals should comply with certain specific requirements regarding the maintenance of lifts: “We have events that we have reported from time to time, such as falling plasters, such as running water from the ceiling, breaking elevators, but remaining broken for days because there is no money to be maintained. There’s a protocol in the elevators. They should be maintained every two months and certified by a company that it is suitable for use. Hospital administrations should pay attention to this issue so that we never have such an incident as at the Red Cross again. All hospital elevators need to be checked because we have no trust.” By Janna Soulaki / Source: Iatropedia.gr
Adonis Georgiadis: “There was no fall elevator in Children – Normally maintenance in January”
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