“We are living through the days of the collapse of the National Social Security system,” its president emphasized. SYRIZA-PS talking to people’s hospital staffwhich he visited this morning.

OUR Alexis Tsipras after examining the outpatient clinics, he turned to the doctors and nurses of the institution referring to the “Third World image” in all public hospitals in the country that “we don’t deserve”. Referring to two “dramatic incidents” in recent days involving the deaths of two women, he said that they were “precisely because of this disrespect, indifference to the National Social Security system.” “Because while there are ambulances, there is no personnel to service them,” he said, noting that over the past four years “there were 560 rescue visits and no permanent recruitment was made.”

In addition, he recalled that during the SYRIZA administration, although these were monumental years with health spending restrictions due to the pressure of the troika, there were “over 300 recruits to EKAV” while “Attica had 84 ambulances circulating compared to 52 today”. He added that in 2018 the Niarchos Foundation offered 148 new ambulances. “Where is it? It is precisely in breakdowns and in repair shops that is why the technical base of EKAV is dissolved,” he noted and accused the failed government that health care is not a “priority”, referring also to the relevant statements of Adonis Georgiadis, that the priority was the economy. “But how can you build an economy if you have no authority in society? How can numbers flourish and people die? This can’t be done”he stressed.

Referring to other facts, Al. Tsipras noted that in December 2019, before the pandemic, his employees YOU was 108,000 and in December 2022 it was 84,000. “We have lost 35% of specialized staff. How should the National Health Service work? Those who came came with fixed-term contracts,” he said and continued:

“Social protection is our priority? Human life? If this is our priority, we cannot continue this discrediting.”

“Comparisons with respect to the memorial period prove that it is not a matter of where we find the money, as we are told. It’s a matter of priorities. Because they did not prioritize 700 rescuers in the AKAB, but prioritized hiring 1,000 police officers for the university police, to which they have nothing to do,” he stressed, accusing the previous government of withdrawing from the SNB because it “works for big interests. As he explained, Greece “it has the highest share of private healthcare spending of any other EU country.“, that is, 35% compared to 15%, while “per capita health care costs are half”, which, as he pointed out, is “a huge field for speculation in the field of health care.”

In addition, addressing the workers, he characterized:moral obligation» to everyone who was on the front lines in the fight against the pandemic make it permanent, while he was also committed to a “substantial increase in wages”, “hard and unhealthy also for nurses” and “increasing their wages”.

“We all understand what’s real ballot box share. Not if we remain Europe, but if we finally become Europe, if we get closer to the Central European ones, if we have reliable healthcare, if we have a strong and humane welfare state,” Al. Tsipras concluded.

Source: RES-IPE