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In the context of a bipartisan showdown with SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras, the government wants to catch the discussion and reactions provoked by the new measures and the management of the second wave of the pandemic in the wake of the announcements by Mitsotakis and the locals. lock centered in Thessaloniki.
In this context, their discussion was scheduled for this Friday morning. topical question from the SYRIZA president due to the congestion of public transport, to which the Prime Minister will respond.
The government is trying with political tricks to escape the fire it receives every day – in the first place from the NSS doctors themselves – due to the fact that it has left the public health system unprotected in pandemic conditions, as its measure demonstrated. suspension of regular surgeries by 80% in the red zones and by 20% in the most vigilant areas, in order to staff and ICU for the coronavirus, while pushing patients of other diseases into the private sector.
At the same time, the government is reverting to rhetoric based on a list of impressive figures for recruitment, ICU beds, etc., figures that in the first phase of the pandemic turned out to be false, on the basis of which it is assumed that has strengthened the NSS during the pandemic, but could not answer the question of how the country converts with 128 displaced people (today they reached a record of 153) to be in discussion even for a universal shutdown and the Prime Minister to announce a special plan for November.
What is now being verified is that the occupancy rates given in the previous period were going to cover the absolute figures that show that in the country there are – according to official data – only 312 ICU beds for covid coronavirus, of which 188 are occupied and 124 vacant (40%).
According to the same data, the ICU-COVID serving the growing needs of Thessaloniki are currently 85. Of these, 57 are occupied and 28 are vacant (33%). Indicative of the fact that the health system in Thessaloniki is collapsing is the fact that the government’s emergency plan for the next few days includes transporting patients to hospitals in neighboring counties.
According to POEDIN data, at the Attica level, the total number of beds in the ICU for coronavirus is 127 and the patients treated in them reach 95. That is, the occupancy rate in the Attica ICU is already 75%.
And all because exactly during all these 8 months of the pandemic, the NSS has not been strengthened with the personnel and infrastructure necessary to cope with the growing needs of the pandemic.
In fact, despite the fact that, regardless of the health sector, the entire opposition makes more or less the same criticisms and demands more or less the same measures, that is, permanent hiring, private health order, measures to decongest congestion in the public transportation, workplaces and schools, however the government at the political level handles the issue as a personal duel Mitsotaki-Tsipra, ND-SYRIZA.
It is indicative that the government spokesman, citing a list of measures to strengthen the NSS, did not stop accusing SYRIZA of “populism” and “coronation”, saying that “the Greeks have given the answer to the question” what if. .. “. 
According to what Stelios Petsas said today during the political authors’ briefing on “strengthening the NSS”:
– The hiring of doctors, nurses, paramedics and support personnel has reached 7,000.
– 557 Intensive Care Units in 2019, have reached 974 and new beds are constantly being added.
– The tests reach 25,000 a day, thirty times more than the first wave, and from yesterday to yesterday they had reached 1.8 million.
– EODY (KOMY) mobile teams have carried out more than 450,000 tests.
“Primary health care structures are actively participating in the fight against the pandemic with 185 health centers and 42 regional clinics.”
In that sense, Mr. Petsas pointed out that “I take note of all this so as not to highlight the Government’s efforts to strengthen the SEN. I emphasize them because SYRIZA, sliding towards the lowest stage of populism, the coronation, insists on the micropolitical controversy over the pandemic.
So, I repeat, the coronavirus pandemic is not a field of micropolitical confrontation.
And those who, desperate in isolation and discredit, greet in a corner counting cases and victims, let them consider that the Greeks have given the answer to the question “what would happen if …” said Mr. Petsas.
Especially for the suspension of regular surgeries, Mr Petsas invoked that this is happening throughout the EU.
“In any case, as was done in the management of the first wave, so now, all the necessary measures are being taken to prepare the health system for the increase in needs. And these measures, as is the case in all European countries, include the temporary reduction of hospital operations.
In any case, however, the treatment programs for patients with chronic health problems continue normally, as well as the necessary diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, drug injections, sessions in an artificial kidney unit).
How are normal and urgent surgeries performed. “Always, of course, with the necessary precautionary measures,” stressed the government spokesman. 
It was preceded, after reactions of the parties but also to the representatives of the health services in the previous days for the suspension of the regular surgeries that faced this development as a collapse of the government narrative about the supposed strengthening of the NSS, the current position of the SYRIZA spokesman Nasos Iliopoulos.
“The phrase that Mr. Petsas had said on September 25 that” if we had listened to SYRIZA about UCI, we would have thrown in tens of millions “, this hideous combination of words that UCI puts in the same sentence with the phrase” money wasted. “” It was the logic that led us to what we are experiencing these days, “he said. Nassos Iliopoulos, explaining that “today scheduled surgeries are canceled because the National Health System has reached its limits.”
“I understand that SYRIZA’s ads are moving again in a context of isolation and discredit, but no lie is justified. I had answered a question and in a subsequent interview on the topic of strengthening the Intensive Care Units. Do you all remember that In March we were discussing SYRIZA’s proposal to ask for private beds? METH’s private beds – when we talk about checks – are not free, they cost 1,600 euros a day.
So, March 13-14 through October 30, if we had proceeded to order the private beds, we are talking about 331 METH. For 1,600 euros a day for more than 230 days, you will see that it is an amount close to 120 million, which SYRIZA asked us to give to people who have clinics, without the need for them. That was a waste of money. Strengthening METH. no money is wasted. And this is what we do, after all. We strengthen the METH. and we have increased them from 557 to 974. We work with the private sector where it is needed. Do not impose METH. where it is not necessary. And that it is never necessary. May the system last ”was Stelios Petsas’s response.
In fact, he returned to the topic Alexis Tsipras characteristically saying: “Until recently they reassured us that we had 1200 ICU beds and that the help we asked for” is a waste of money. “And today they suddenly tell us that with 140 of our fellow citizens intubated, we already have a fullness of more than 75% in Attica. And in the periphery about 100%, they are already sending patients to distant hospitals. “When did they tell us the truth and when did they lie?”
Former State Minister Christoforos Bernardakis spoke about cynicism.
St. Petsas (1st Prize for Cynicism 2020): “If we had listened to SYRIZA about the UCI, we would have thrown away tens of millions” (26/9).
Today 11/2 the Thessaloniki hospitals are out of action and the government immediately implements an air transport plan from Thessaloniki to other cities …– Chr.Vernardakis (@ChVernardakis) November 2, 2020
350 health workers are sick
It should be noted that from the government announcements in recent months on restrictive measures, there is a systematic absence of any reference to measures to strengthen the SEN and whenever this is done at the rhetorical level, the facts show that the reality is completely different to the figures presented by government officials. .
Criminal responsibilities
“The government’s responsibilities are criminal! Once again, the public health system is becoming a disease system. The drastic reduction of regular surgeries by 20% in the areas under surveillance and by 80% in the areas of greatest risk demolishes the government’s narrative for the strengthening and preparation of the public health system ”, emphasizes the president of OENGE Aphrodite Renziou and adds:
“It is confirmed once again that the measures taken by the government were based on the resilience of the capitalist economy and not on preserving the health of the people, as it provokes.
Is it true that the radical and intensive controls announced today by the government to comply with the measures will also be applied to the private health groups that in the first wave continued to sell their services without being disturbed by their high clientele?
Here and now the government must stop sucking the candy of “individual responsibility”, to proceed with the imposition of the private health sector, in real shielding measures of the public health system with massive hiring of permanent staff and the development of the entire infrastructure necessary.
An antidote to government irresponsibility is strengthening our claims for the protection of our health and the defense of our lives! “
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