“The SAD, ordered for the absence of an ambulance driver in Aegina, who emerged with the incident that the 79 -year -old lost her life, has not been done to blame drivers, but for anyone who is responsible.” This was clarified by the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis Answering a timely question by MP of the New Left Nassos Iliopoulos.
The minister said he was expecting to receive the SAD’s findings within the week and made it clear that “we did not do SAD to punish the ambulance drivers, but to investigate the incident. I do not predict the outcome of the SAD, nor do I say that the penalties will be in the drivers or only to them. Responsibility may be to the President of the CY or to the members of the Board of Directors or to another … and the penalties will be charged to anyone who is found to have been responsible. Who is responsible will say the finding of the SAD, which I will announce and I will adopt it. “
Mr Georgadis rejected the MP’s claim that his order for SAD was aimed at intimidating anyone, but “to see what went wrong and there was no ambulance”.
The Minister of Health said that in 2024 on the platform for the recruitment of auxiliary health staff, they had actually expressed interest in Aegina three ambulance drivers. We have contacted all three of the early June and not now to cover positions, but withdrew their interest as they had found work elsewhere. So there was no and there is no one in the Aegina recruitment today and added that “even today, if one calls us and tells us that he wants to be hired, either as an auxiliary or with blocks, he will be hired tomorrow. We have also invited an ambulance permanent driver to the island, but we have no interest again. We have exhausted all the ways of recruitment to increase the number of ambulance drivers, but we have no response. “
Concerning shifts and the number of ambulance drivers on the island, Mr Georgiadis said that the three drivers serving the 24 -hour shift should actually work in the days without a day without a day. But he added, because there is this lack, there are some shifts that come out that are “on call”, that is, without the obligation to presence in the CY, but to have their phone open to go to the CY when needed. The three drivers should have had their mobiles open that day. As with the other incident in the monastery where a woman pulled her shoulder and had to be transported by ambulance to KY. Whether the driver arrived with the ambulance, the police patrol had gone and transported it.
New Left MP Nassos Iliopoulos said that with three guides the shifts do not come out. They need at least five to be drivers. None of the three drivers had a shift that day. On call services do not exist in the employment contract. He added “if you want 16 -hour workers to work like the driver who squeezed the OASA bus”. Mr Iliopoulos asked the minister how many truths are the days of leave due to each of these three drivers and what would happen if one of them should not drive why he has to take his off and his leave and he is therefore, “the MP said,” sign with the state. ” Mr Iliopoulos pointed out that after the incident with the 79 -year -old the fourth driver of the ambulance who had been seconded to the mill, with the opposite opinion of KY, returned.
Regarding the recruitment of drivers, the new leftist MP said that “according to KYK employees they know a driver, but also a woman who is from Aegina and are on the healthcare boards who would like to be hired. Will you hire them? “