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Progress is expected for Friday morning on the issue of the provision by private clinics in Thessaloniki of 200 beds for patients with COVID-19, as the ultimatum of the Ministry of Health for a response until 9 at night Thursday expired. The next step is to order the beds, since the situation in Thessaloniki is in “red”.
In particular, in a document, the Secretary General of Health Services immediately requests 200 beds for COVID-19 cases within the Thessaloniki regional unit of private clinics, otherwise he will resort to the mandatory measure of universal coercion.
The Union responds that it cannot get rid of them, citing the fear of the disease spreading and the inability to handle such incidents.
Private clinics have already provided non-Covid beds for other cases.
“The Ministry had informed us a month ago that additional beds would be needed in private clinics in Thessaloniki. Last Saturday we had a meeting with the owners, but all the clinics refused. They all tell me that they cannot confuse patients with COVID- 19 with those who do not have COVID-19. Furthermore, we do not have the necessary experience for something like this, “said the president of the Panhellenic Association of Private Clinics, Grigoris Sarafianos, in statements to GRTimes.gr.
He explained that he already informed the ministry about the decision of his colleagues. According to him, the response of the members of the Union was to transfer the clinical patients without coronavirus even from the hospitals of the neighboring prefectures.
Mr Sarafianos makes a sense that the pressure on the health system, especially in Thessaloniki, is very great. He claims that some 50 patients have been transferred to his own clinic in the last week alone. “Think how difficult the situation is in hospitals with 900 cases a day,” he said.
Regarding what will be born, he said that the Union is now awaiting the Prime Minister’s decision. “If the impeachment is finally carried out, we will see how we react.” After all, we have a war, “he said.
Source: skai.gr
