Georgiades: “The nurses will enter the heavy and unhealthy” – Anti-Androulaki and “thank you” to Diamantopoulou

The inclusion of nurses in the heavy and unhealthy pre-announced by the Minister of Health in the House, responding to him for the relevant PASOK amendment. “The nurses will enter the heavy and unhealthy. The government will legislate as soon as the required preparation is completed,” said Georgiades, addressing Mr Georgiades. And go on: “I have already said, before you, that I have announced to the WTO, at two meetings, that for nurses, their status will be assimilated and heavy and unhealthy enter. But legislation is not done in the leg. It’s done as it should be. It passes through the State General Accountant, has measured exactly how much it costs us, who it concerns, but yes, we commit that it will, and we have said so. Before your amendment, I have announced it twice and I will certainly do it when I am ready to legislate correctly, I make it clear. Because the nurses there have been wronged and I don’t want anyone to feel wronged by the system,” said the Minister of Health. For its part, PASOK responds that the government rejected its amendment to subject all health care to heavy and unhealthy, “with many excuses and inaccurate evidence. But he accepted, with Mr Georgiades’ statement, that the request is fair to the nursing staff. That is why he denies his position on the subject of all health care without exception” and proposes the inclusion of nurses. Mr.Androuliakis stressed that today part of the nurses working in the private sector are under heavy and unhealthy but this is not the case for nurses working in public hospitals. And he urged the Minister of Health, as did PASOK, to take a step towards consensus on the benefit of the NSS, so that the government would take a step of consensus and include nurses in the heavy and unhealthy. “Listen, Mr. Androuliakis, we did have an important disagreement last week. I would remind you that you have tabled an amendment, for the 22nd time, calling for full membership of the heavy and unhealthy staff of the NSI. I explained that this is a populist, dangerous amendment for the NIS, which whoever had you signed and even 22 times wanted to blow the NSO into the air,” said the Minister of Health and added: “We were different. You have said that I am lying and that no one will leave the NIS and that your amendment will be implemented after 12 years. The next day, PASOK’s Secretary of Political Planning, Mrs Diamantopoulou, said it is not 7,500 that will leave but only 2,000. He also said that the PASOK amendment should not be for the whole NSS but only for some nurses. Indeed, in this I said it was a reasonable request. I am pleased that after a week Mr. Androuliakis joins Georgiadis and Diamantopoulou. It is a trend towards logic, after the 22 times you tabled the wrong amendment. You came to Parliament to tell us today that 22 times you tabled the wrong amendment and needed to have this debate to understand what is right.” In any case, Mr Georgiadis also commented, addressing the President of PASOK, “of the 100,000 people you wanted to put on the heavyweights, you have limited it to a few thousand. It is a progress of PASOK, from populist to serious. I thank Mrs Diamantopoulou for any touch of seriousness she put in PASOK, with this intervention.”