V Gennimatas Hospital Patients can wait up to 24 hours for urgent until there is a free hospital bed. In your recent vigil State of Nicevictims in a traffic accident waited standing up until they found an empty stretcher, and these patients, at least until the examination, should lie and be motionless. In the pathology department of the same hospital, there are five qualified doctors instead of ten, which should be. All over 55 years old. As a pathologist from the State University of Nice notes, Olga Cosmopoulou, “we are tired. And when you have to serve 80-100 patients in the emergency room, it’s hard to do serious medicine.”

V “Attikon” 100 patients are treated at the hallway ranch every day. That is, every sixth patient of the hospital. “Hospitalization in the corridor is unacceptable and non-functional. The patient has a runny nose, he cannot go to the toilet, ”says Fotis Kolokatis, doctor “Attikon”. In most hospitals in the basin, 50% of operating beds are out of service due to a lack of staff. “Cismanoglio” is on duty every four days for lung problems and usually starts duty with only 4-5 empty beds. The hospital, which has two pulmonology clinics, currently has only one thoracic surgeon.

Board members are demanding hiring, more funding for the National Social Security system, and payroll reform. associations of physicians.

Depiction of continuous degradation NHS medical units swimming pool, told the doctors members of the board of directors at yesterday’s press conference. Piraeus Hospitals of Athens Physicians Association (INAP), Matina Pagoni, Mary Arogianni, Olga Cosmopoulou, Kostas Livadas, Fotis Kolokatis, who highlight the need to immediately recruit permanent staff to support the NHS. “There are colleagues who want to staff pool hospitals, but there are no announcements. Staffing is purely a matter of political will. If the government wants, it can solve it,” they said. Physicians’ demands include increased funding for the National Health Service, as well as reforming their salaries to pre-memory levels.

According to the president of EINAP, Matina Pagonis, recently the Union has begun to register the problems of the NHS medical departments: in the Children’s “Agia Sophia” they ask for recruitment, among others, in neurosurgery, immunology, Mediterranean anemia, anesthesiology, microbiology, pediatrics, radiology, as well as in the medical staff. Gennimatas is urgently asking for pathologists, Sismanoglio is asking for two thoracic surgeons, five pathologists, two surgeons and pulmonologists. Agios Savvas is looking for radiologists-technologists. In the clinics of Spata and Lavrion, six permanent doctors are requested.

He described the situation in the National Social Security System as “critical or hopeless”. Kostas Livadas, urologist at Sismanoglio. According to him, of the 700 full-time positions of doctors announced in May last year, only 350 were announced for the region, and this does not even cover those who leave. “And they are still wanted,” he added. “There is a shortage of paramedical specialties such as, for example. carriers of the wounded. Over the past 3.5 years, not a single vacancy for paramedical personnel has been announced. One nurse cannot serve 40 or even 60 patients on a night shift. This is not medicine, this is military medicine.”