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(Title) climax this week, demonstrations by junior doctors react to passing a bill in the Ministry of Health to “upgrade of the NHS, which provides, inter alia, all-day operation of change in hospitals and doctors efimeriako system.
Already yesterday the country’s many hospitals operate with security staff, because the five-day strike has been declared by the Federation of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE). The chairman of the Federation Mr. D. Barnabas, speaking on “K”, he estimated that hospitals in the region to participate in the strike reached even the 70%.
Attica responded to the call of OENGE doctors in hospitals Nice state, “Attic”, “Red Cross” and “St. Olga. The Union of Doctors Hospital of Athens-Piraeus has diversified its stance in relation to OENGE, and decided on 24-hour strike tomorrow, the day vote to the bill. The Hellenic Medical Society and the Medical Associations in Athens and Piraeus have urged their members to strike tomorrow. Paniatriko rally takes place tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. outside the House.

Doctors call for immediate withdrawal of the bill in response to two major points: all-day operation of hospitals which it is described as an attempt to privatize the hospital “and change the system efimeriakou . Under the bill, every doctor will receive a monthly allowance for a certain number and call if you need to make extra call, they will be compensated from the proceeds of full-day running of hospitals.

According to the Department Health, the monthly payment on a call number corresponding to 90% of their hospital assessment strongly disputed by doctors. As said in the features “K” the neurosurgeon Board Member the EINAP Panos Papanicolaou in Surgery and Anaesthesia and Section Intensive Care Unit of the State provided the Nice-based compensation call arriving to cover only 50% of its needs, and serious problems will occur in small hospitals in the province because of shortages of doctors. According to doctors, the new system will “dramatically worsen the problem of unpaid call. Indeed not intend to make the addition to the planned call if not commit governments have funds to compensate them. Meanwhile, the obligation to ‘Occupying’ managers and coordinators, medical directors of public hospitals providing amendment to a bill to upgrade the National Health System, presented by the Minister of Health Mrs Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou. The OENGE has repeatedly called for the establishment of “Occupying” for all doctors and other officials in positions of responsibility in the system. In this context, the Hospital Attic “was in progress during the last ten days collecting signatures on a letter in which doctors make available to the supervisory bank accounts.

By Penny Mpouloutza

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20-7-2010

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