Evening surgery: Medical teams will tour hospitals all over the country and perform surgery.

The number of participants in the afternoon is increasing while the Health Ministry is preparing a new innovation. After the hospitals “Papageorgiou” and AHEPA of Thessaloniki and Kavala and Alexandroupolis Hospitals, for today Thursday (14.03. 24) The opening of the afternoon service in Attica hospitals is planned. And all this while in the near future surgical teams will be “touring” in hospitals in the country. The first two surgical procedures at the “Evangelism” Hospital will be of a general surgical and neurosurgery nature, while at the General Hospital of Attica – CAT there will be two more surgeries, a hip arthrplasty and a knee arthroplasty. Today, they start their afternoon surgeries, as well, “Saint Paul” Thessaloniki with bile removal surgery and another breast surgery. Referring to the afternoon surgeries that will take place in Attica and the rest of Greece over the next few days, the Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiades, stressed that the General State of Athens “G. Gennimatas” is expected to enter the dance on Friday (15.03.24) and next week: the Ongology “Agioi Anargyrii” in the Northern Suburbs of Athens, the “Saint Luke” in Thessaloniki and the University Hospital of Ioannina “The CAT that starts on Thursday (p. I had said from the beginning that if there are proper fees, the surgical teams will be found and found,” he noted in an interview he granted to STAR. Evening surgery: Who happened yesterday – Doctors react Please note that yesterday (13.03. 24) 5 surgeries were performed at the University Hospital in Larissa, and specific ophthalmological procedures were carried out to deal with macular and cataract. On the same day, the Hospital “Papageorgiou” continued its afternoon service with doctors still performing two surgeries, while today Thursday (14.03). 24) there is planning to conduct additional four surgeries. Despite the expansion of the institution, however, a portion of hospital and private doctors are still protesting, talking about “health trafficking” Doctors of the Association of Doctors of Athens and Piraeus (EINAP) have announced a job stop today Thursday 14/03/24 (13:00 – 15:00) and a gathering outside the hospital “Evangelism”. At the same time, they call on their colleagues not to participate in afternoon paid surgeries! Evening surgery: How much patients pay, how much doctors pay The first surgeries held in Thessaloniki on Monday (12.03). 24) were granted free of charge by the state, as a gesture of goodwill. The first patient of “Papageorgiou”, however, who was subjected to total knee arthropplasty would pay 1,000 euros for this intervention, if the health ministry did not cover the costs. “If you went to a private hospital for such an operation you might even pay over 4,000. This patient was charged 1,000 euros. That was the difference. It was about 1/4 of the price he would pay in a private hospital,” commented Adonis Georgiades. The good fees of doctors, in fact, as he added, are the motivation that has attracted more doctors to the health system. The bill currently in consultation is expected to give the right to private work to the doctors of the NSS, but also to private doctors under conditions to work in hospitals. “What we’re trying to do now is to tell the doctor who doesn’t get an envelope and well doesn’t get, that “look, don’t see the other bad fellow he was taking, now if you want you can operate this afternoon legally, morally correct, have your reward and do good to the world,” noted the Minister of Health. Would it be good if the state gave it to the doctors themselves, Adonis Georgiades added, but “how can the state do this overall to everyone? The payroll to the NSS is 3 billion. So if you’re going to give the whole NSO a double salary, you want another 3 billion,” he stressed. Medical teams will operate in hospitals across the country Another part of the reforms that follow is that new legislation allows surgical teams to “touring” and operate in various hospitals in the country, which do not have the necessary staff. The idea of the Ministry of Health is that because we cannot have neurosurgeons, Thoracic surgeons and other specialties allowed surgical teams, e.g. the Evangelism Hospital, go for a week and perform surgery at the General Hospital of Kavala. “The system we make for the patient,” commented Adonis Georgiadis. “If the patient cannot come to a large tertiary hospital in Athens or Thessaloniki, does he not have this financial capacity, should we forever deprive him of the possibility of having the surgery he needs? No, it is our responsibility to solve his problem,” he noted. At Easter the free Evening Surgery Near Easter will also begin the program of the Recovery Fund, amounting to 60 million euros for the state to provide around 50,000 free afternoon surgeries, with priority in those surgeries marking the longest waiting on the list of 102,000 unserviced interventions. No financial criteria were set, except in time, the Minister of Health said: “We will go based on waiting. To stay for three years and wait, it means no other way to go to a private hospital, no other ways, so let’s go help him. So we go and find these people. I believe it will be approved by the European authorities in about two weeks, we will be able to start it around the end of April. Our goal is for everyone who has been waiting for their surgery for a long time, to operate for free as a priority in afternoon surgery”, concluded Adonis Georgiadis. By Janna Soulaki / Source: Iatropedia.gr