‘No more camouflage of failure’
“Citizens are worth the truth, no other camouflage of failure,” commented his health officer ChangeIoannis Tsimaris and the Secretary of the Health Division, George Frangidis, on the posting of the Prime Minister for the NHS, while noting in a joint statement that “instead of triumphs, the country needs political will to substantially reconstitute the public health system”.
“If we take K. Mitsotakis’ posts in the virtual reality they are experiencing in the microcosm of Maximus, everything is going well in health,” they comment in particular. They report that they escape the attention of the Prime Minister as follows:
“- Greeks pay 7.3 billion euros from their pocket and private fuses (first place in the EU) for health services,
– 21% of citizens in need of care were unable to cover them in 2023 (first place in the EU)
– Due to dissolved primary health care, hospitals are charged
– Those who are diagnosed with pathological findings in preventive tests are unable to find in time guidance and treatment. “
They note in the answers to the questionnaires that “the government is trying – once again – to turn a worrying record of reality into a communication tool” and that “instead of reading the results of the first evaluation of the NHS with responsibility and seriousness, it presents them as success, as a success.”
More specifically, they argue that “when 4 out of 10 patients say they did not have sufficient nursing care, this is not an indication of” progress “. It is a cry for help “, that” when 39% did not participate in the decision to treat it, this is not “functioning of the NHS” but paternalism and exclusion “and that” when almost 1 in 3 patients received no information on social benefits, it is an institutional abandonment of the most vulnerable “.
PASOK’s competent sectors also comment that “the fragmentary reading of positive indicators – such as confidence in doctors and good communication – cannot hide the forest of under -staffing, staff exhaustion and tragic deficiencies in the region” Miserable infrastructure, to health professionals who hold the NHS up at personal costs “and” in the very truth that the government is trying to camouflage behind numbers “.
They conclude that “instead of triumphants, the country needs political will to substantially reconstruct the public health system, starting with the basics: human resources, funding, equal access to all.” Finally, they add that “the evaluation of the questionnaires is not a propaganda tool”, but a mirror and that “the mirror shows an NHS that is struggling but not supported”. “Citizens are worth the truth, no other camouflage of failure,” they say.