After the complaints made about the situation at the “Elena” maternity hospital, Stefanos Kasselakis made a surprise visit on Friday afternoon (09/08).
The president of SYRIZA wanted to be informed firsthand about what is happening at the maternity hospital. The employees of the hospital, with whom the President of SYRIZA-PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, spoke, confirmed the complaints, while also informing him of a number of other, particular and serious, problems, such as the many-month delays observed for gynecological examinations, the which are related to the occurrence of cancer and reach up to one year.
The biggest problem seems to be in the old hospital building, where the air conditioning does not work. After his visit to the hospital, Stefanos Kasselakis said: “It is another visit to a public hospital, to the “flagship” of our country’s maternity hospitals. Here where, literally, there was no drinking water for days, where the waiting list for gynecological surgeries has reached a year, where the staff is experiencing real depredation even though they are making tremendous efforts with honorarium.
It is another visit in which we see that the public health system has been dismantled by choice, apparently, politics. Let the minister come here, to this historic hospital, to see the problems up close. Finally, the public health system must be staffed and these people, the staff, who live in a hostage situation and cannot have rudimentary family or professional planning, must be made permanent. This is real labor exploitation of public officials who keep our families alive in general and who here bring joy to families with childbirth. But this too in conditions that are not appropriate for a developed country in Europe.
Obviously, there is support from the official opposition for all the staff and above all for health, which is a right of the Greek citizen”.
His resignation is a movement of political integrity
In the relevant information issued by SYRIZA it is pointed out that the party “from the first moment, he dealt with due seriousness the shocking complaint of the workers at “Elena” about the lack of drinking water in the country’s largest maternity hospital, stressing that it highlights the situation in the public health system during the Mitsotakis administration and the Adonis Georgiadis administration, considering that the resignation of the latter would be a minimal move of political propriety.
At the same time, SYRIZA pointed out that the purpose of the government and the political leadership of the Ministry of Health is to push citizens into the paid arms of private hospitals and maternity hospitals. Moreover, the arbitrary and insidious statement of Mr. Georgiadis that “The public health system is not only the state system, it is also the private one” is typical..
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