‘We will have the waiting times of citizens’
The “bracelet” in hospitals begins in the following days, and as the Deputy Minister of Health said Marios Themistocles “This is a system in the context of the digital transition, which will give us very useful information. First of all, how much people expect because we hear very long waiting. “
“We can also be centralized as a Ministry of Health for waiting times, as well as the hospital administrator, so that if there are delays caused by local daily operation, it can intervene ad hoc and solve or even information to us that we need to change things. For example, if we have a very long delay in the axial at Gennimatas Hospital, to strengthen it in a personal or other way to have faster diagnoses.
This will start again from the major hospitals “Evangelism”, “Constantopouleio”, “Agia Olga” and then expand will extend to all hospitals in the country, “he said.
Then as he said: “The trace system in completing the project, which will be at the end of 2025 early 2026, will also give the citizen the information. That is, the citizen will be able to either use an application on his cellphone, or the internet will come in and see that in the “Evangelism” pathological he has so much waiting time, in the Cardiology at the “Constantopoulos” Hospital he has 2 hours of waiting so that he knows beforehand and can be directed. “
“Red Cross volunteers will do some administrative procedures”
Marios Themistocles referred to program launched at Evangelismos Hospital with Red Cross volunteers which will help with procedural and administrative issues as well as in the process of wandering within the hospital.
As he said: “It is something that is applied to other hospitals in Europe. When one gets to the emergency, it is something that the patient had not planned and his companions are under a very stressful situation and enter a hospital area, which is quite difficult and complicated. There will be there in the three hospitals that are the largest in the call, The Red Cross volunteers who will not do the medical or nursing piece, but some administrative procedures that exist. That is, the doctor may request an X -ray, he may request some documents from the Motion Office. These volunteers will guide to make the time of emergency stay a little better than they are right now. It will be in the three major hospitals that we will start, in “Attica”, “Gennimatas” and “Evangelism” and we will also direct the forces because it may need different forces in the afternoon shift, less in the morning or in the evening. “
In the “battle” of on -call and health centers
“We already have health centers that have begun to be on call with hospitals and health centers they have giving a great deal of help to hospitals. We have the Alexandra, Kallithea Health Center in Lavrio, which have already begun and on call. Citizens can enter the site of the Ministry of Health where it writes hospitals every day that they are on -the -day health centers and their time, “said Marios Themistokleous.
“For hospital on -calls he said: We have already discussed two measures that we have begun to implement the system with the Red Cross volunteers and the digital trace system. The third direction is that they have been strengthened and continued to be reinforced in the last month with 150 nursing staff, who are only for the emergency departments, so this is a great support. “
‘Doctors are placed, we finish the crises We have announced 17 posts with a very large number of candidates and they will be placed in the hospitals next month. The fourth direction is the direction of organizational changes. We made changes to the hospitals and the first results are quite positive. We have a better dispersion of citizens who go to emergency and the image has improved in the majority of hospitals. “
Citizens’ evaluation begins
“I have been extremely important (of the Panhellenic Medical Association), I have seen it and we are in communication and in collaboration with the PIS and to associate it with the next issue which is the evaluation.”
“What we have seen at the Ministry of Health because we have our own research, we have citizens who record and say the weaknesses of the National Health System. We have seen a different degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction from the national health system with whether or not one has used it. Citizens who have used, that is, have been hospitalized, operated on, examined in the national health system, have a better image than the national system than the overall picture when we ask the population. “
‘We are starting an assessment systemwhich any citizen who is hospitalized in the hospital with his exit from the hospital will receive an SMS, which will have a link, pressing on it or through Taxisnet codes, will be able to enter and with a questionnaire with very specific questions, will evaluate his experience in the hospital. It will evaluate health care not the medical part. If his doctor explained what the hospital has to do, if leaving the hospital he took instructions, if the staff were cooperative, polite, if the hotel infrastructure was satisfactory. Did they have sheets in the hospital? Was the food good? From this we can receive information, evaluate the hospital administration so that we can reach the quality and after measuring the quality we can improve it. “
What will happen to the health system in tourist areas
“The country has had a problem in the islands and remote areas over time. Motivation has been given since last year. These incentives are economical and are related to the area located and specialties. They can reach up to an increase of 600 euros per month. The positions we announced and that have been barren over time, that is, there was no candidate out of the 300 seats we covered 2/3. This is a very important progress. You tell me there are 100 positions that were not covered. Yes, it is true, but this summer will be better than last year. “
Finally, as he said: “Not all gaps have been filled. There will still be problems. In Kos, in Drama, in Florina we continue to have a problem with positions. But we have covered 2/3 of the areas we had difficulty in previous years. The same thing had happened and as you’ve seen last year it was a much better year for EKAB. A very specific plan has been developed with the help of other factors and the local community we have covered. You know, we can’t wake up from day to night and problems that have been in the country for 40 years… We will be better as we go and we are better as we go. “