“I fight it, I disgust it, I love it”
“In the NHS I do not tolerate the sachet. I have made a platform so that patients can automatically submit their complaint if someone has asked them a sachet and declare that as long as I am a health minister, no such case will be tolerated, “the health minister said, among other things. Adonis Georgiadis, In an interview today at SKAI 100.3 radio station.
Referenced In the arrest of a doctor at Hippocrates Hospital In the charge of bribery, he said that the administration of the Hippocrates immediately put the doctor in suspension of duties.
“This is an administrative measure, whether he is guilty or innocent will be judged by the court,” the health minister underlined and also referred to his own post where he essentially announced the hospital’s ruling.
“I am posting the decision of the Hippocrates Administration yesterday afternoon that the doctor was suspended. And Ms. Elena Akrita of SYRIZA comes out, and accuses me of an official post that “our decision to put the doctor in suspension violates the presumption of his innocence and we are unacceptable”. That is, SYRIZA demands that the doctor come back to the hospital and take sachets until the judicial procedure is completed? Is this SYRIZA’s official position on the sachet? ” questioned.
“The sachet has no place in the NHS. I fight it, I dislike it, I love it. The sachet means that you get money from the world blackmailing for a service that the NHS provides for free. And I don’t want this at all, “the Minister of Health continued and added: “In the conversation of the doctors that” the money we get are a little “, I have given them the right to do private work at the same time so that, if the doctor wants to make more money, go in the afternoon to operate in a private hospital and receive more money.”
Asked if “everything goes clockwise” to the NHS, Mr Georgiadis said: “In a national health system with 127 hospitals, 368 health centers and 1500 regional clinics managing 85,000 incidents a day, that is, 25 million a year, I am not a fool. But what I believe is that the progress of the system is evident. “
As he said, if 10 years ago at 85,000 incidents, 15,000 incidents were suffering a day, now 5,000 are suffering and if we continue so, there will be 1,000.
“Always, unfortunately, someone will suffer. We need to learn to defend the NHS. I’m not saying to defend the NHS to hide the problems. I first go to “on camera” to hospitals and talk about the problems. It is another to talk about the problems of the NHS that we want to solve, and another day to saw our confidence in the system. The system works and we have one of the best systems in Europe, “he concluded.