Koronoios: Mitsotaki’s intervention in the Infectious Diseases Committee – What he told scientists

He also stated that We maintain as a legacy the great confidence of the Greeks in the National Health System and promised “the investment we make in the reliability but also in the operational capacity of the National Health System have no temporary but permanent characteristics».

The Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias, He congratulated the scientists one by one for the continuous cooperation and the great efforts they have made regarding the treatment of the coronary artery, while noting that “the improvement of hospitals and the National Health System continues at an intense rate».

The teleconference was also attended by the Undersecretary of Health, Vassilis Kontozamanis, the Secretary General of Public Health, Panagiotis Prezerakos and the representative of the Ministry of Health for the new coronary professor of pathology – infectious diseases Sotiris Tsiodras.

The working group consists of:

• Vatopoulos Alkis, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Public Health Policy PADA
• Gargalianos Panagiotis, Specialist in Pathology of Infectious Diseases, President of the Hellenic Infection Society
• Giamarellou Eleni, Professor Emeritus of Pathology EKPA, President of the Hellenic Society of Chemotherapy
• Gogos Charalambos, Pathologist-Infectious Diseases Specialist, Professor of Pathology, Medical Department, University of Patras
• Daikos Georgios, Professor Emeritus of Infectious Disease Pathology EKPA
• Athanasians with six fingers, President of the Panhellenic Medical Association
• Zaoutis Theoklis, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology – University of Pennsylvania – College of Medicine
• Karaiskou AngelikiInfectious disease surveillance nurse “THRIASIO”
• Lagiou Pagona, Physician, Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, EKPA Medical School, President, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University, USA. USA
• Lazanas Marios, Pathologist-Specialist in Infectious Diseases, President of the Hellenic Society for the Study and Treatment of AIDS
• Athanasia Bath, Specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Director of the National Health Service – First Pediatric Clinic of the General Hospital of Athens “SANTA SOFÍA”
• Mayokarkinis Gikas, Assistant Professor, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, EKPA School of Medicine – Working Group on Scientific Data Review and Developments in the 2019 Coronation Epidemic-nCoV
• Mentis Andreas, Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology E.I. SHEPHERD
• Panagiotopoulos Panagiotis, Professor of Epidemiology, PADA (ex ESDY)
• Papaevangelou Vassiliki, Professor of Pediatrics, G.N.Th. “ATTICA”
• Pappas – Konidari Anna, AUTh Professor, Director of the First Microbiology Laboratory, National Center for the Reporting of Arbori and Hemorrhagic Fever
• Saroglou George, Pathologist-Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, EKPA. former president of KEELPNO
• Sypsas Nikolaos, Professor of pathological physiology of EKPA infections
• Toloumis George, Deputy Chief, Director of Health GEETHA
• Tsakris Athanasios, Professor of Microbiology, Director of the Microbiology Laboratory of the EKPA Faculty of Medicine, Vice-Rector of EKPA
• Tsiodras Sotirios, Professor of Medicine EKPA – GNA ATTIKON, Specialist in Pathology-Infectious Diseases
• Tsolias Maria, Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, EKPA
• Chatzigeorgiou Dimitrios, Deputy Chief, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Director of Civil Aviation Health
• Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly.
• Dimitris Paraskevi, Associate Professor of Epidemiology – Preventive Medicine, Laboratory of Hygienic Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, EKPA.
• Vana Sypsa, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, EKPA.

In detail, the intervention by Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

“Thank you, Minister, good afternoon from me and I am very happy to have had the opportunity to thank you for the services you have provided to Public Health, throughout the country, during the last three very difficult months. From the first moment that this crisis hit our country and our homeland, I personally made the decision to trust the eminent experts, listen to their suggestions and also give you, and probably you too, an important step of public speaking so that you can inform Greek society about everything that is happening, but at the same time training her in new habits that we all had to acquire.

It goes without saying that you know very well that we have made significant progress in the fight against the first phase of the pandemic, and I believe that the data for the past few weeks confirms this. And, of course, we are always very careful when analyzing epidemiological models and being able to make predictions about what will happen from now on. But, as we have pointed out many times, this gradual opening, the return to a new daily life not only involves many risks, but has a much greater degree of difficulty than the blockade, which is a difficult but easier political and economic movement. in its implementation.

And as we move on to the next phase, your own guidelines and suggestions that you make are still extremely valuable to us in terms of the sequence of movements we need to make, as well as whether we feel like we should hit the gas. slow down and we may have to take a few steps backward by limiting activities to avoid a second wave, which we would in no way want to manifest before what you tell us can manifest itself ndechomen next October.

You know, science gives us a lot of data, but it doesn’t always give us definitive answers. And I understand that with a new virus like this, in many decisions that we are asked to make, we are in unknown waters, as we are asked to make decisions without always having all the scientific data at our disposal. But we want to have as much as possible. And I think that until now we have been justified in this policy.

For all of you who have a public passage and there are many who are called by the media to develop their points of view, I want to thank you because through this public passage, as far as possible, a single reason came out. I consider that this It is extremely important, because there is nothing more difficult than sending confusing messages as a country and as a scientific community. I think other countries, I don’t want to refer to specific examples, they have not done so well in this direction, so I want to thank you again. Not only because of the scientific work he does, but also because of the responsibility with which he participates in public debate in explaining concepts that are often difficult to understand and with which we have all become relatively familiar.

We still have important decisions to make about how we will return to this new daily life, we still have difficult problems ahead, many of which have to do with whether and how the tourism market works. but with more experience than three months ago and you know much more about this virus and the doctors who are on the front line and who have handled many of these cases, and epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists know more than they did three years ago. months. And, of course, citizens remain, they are much more sensitive today, and they know much more about how they should protect themselves, their loved ones, especially the vulnerable, but also the whole of society in general.

I think we have many reasons to be satisfied with the fact that, as a country, we have shown great responsibility, possibly pleasantly surprising some who have always been quick to use not-so-flattering stereotypes about our country and our fellow citizens. And I think it is up to us to continue this effort, to get to the end. The end will now be established when we have a definitive cure or a vaccine that allows us to leave this painful period behind.

However, as a legacy we maintain the great confidence of the Greeks in the National Health System and my personal commitment, this investment we make in the reliability and operational capacity of the National Health System does not have temporary characteristics but permanent ones. The Greek citizen has great confidence today in the public, in the National Health System, which has stood the test of time and is a golden opportunity to invest in it, because it may seem very distant at some point in the future. We will be called to deal with other incidents of this type. It is something that we must be aware of.

I do not want to prolong and say more, my minister. I just wanted to share these thoughts with you, but first of all thank you and ask you for this live exchange of opinions that you have, that is always successful and ends in a common place, because this is how it should be. It is possible to continue it for the benefit of public health and Greek society as a whole. “

Also read:

Plan “Restart in tourism”: how hotels and beaches will work: what changes there are in flights

See all the latest News from Greece and the world, the moment they occur, in Newsbomb.gr