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The government continues to play hide and seek with private clinics in Thessaloniki, at a time when the city is one step closer to collapse.
The situation had to reach a point of no return in Thessaloniki and northern Greece for the government to cowardly decide to exert unbearable pressure on the city’s private clinics to help in the fight against the pandemic, and even at the last minute the Doctors refuse, as done since the beginning of the pandemic to contribute.
According to what has become known in the last hours, in a letter, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health asks the clinics of Thessaloniki to voluntarily provide 200 beds for patients with COCID-19. The document originally had an ultimatum until 8pm tonight, which lasted until 9pm.
It is not yet known when the ministry and the government will make the final decisions.
Otherwise, the government leaves suspicions that it will proceed with a request, that is, to do what it stubbornly refused to do since the beginning of the pandemic and because of what the opposition had pressured, bodies and, of course, representatives of doctors and nurses, that is. who have fought the great battle all these months.
The document sent to the doctors.
Even at the last minute, the heads of the clinics refuse
The document was published by the website ieidiseis.gr, which also houses statements by the president of the Panhellenic Association of Private Clinics, who cites organizational and financial reasons stating:
On the one hand, we cannot treat patients with coronavirus and without coronavirus at the same time because there will be transmission of the virus to those who have not been in contact with them. And secondly, the treatment of patients with COVID-19 costs a lot and there is no possibility, the liquidity in our clinics. Only oxygen and drugs require liquidity and the clinics will not be paid for until 3-4 months have passed… Where can we find the money?
At the same time, however, ERT retransmissions, the president of PEIK points out that in recent days private clinics have accepted about 200 patients who do not have coronavirus and that to accept others, specific ones must leave.
The situation in Thessaloniki and northern Greece is dramatic
Thessaloniki and northern Greece in general have been at the center of the pandemic for several weeks, despite strict restrictive measures being taken for a long time.
The situation in the hospitals in the area is dramatic with the ICU suffering asphyxia, as recorded in the AHEPA, Papageorgiou and Ippokratio hospitals.
Only today the new cases registered in Thessaloniki were 774, a reduction compared to yesterday, but by far the majority in Greece.
Respectively in the “red” are areas such as Drama, Pella, Serres, Imathia, Magnesia.
