New mobilization has been planned by the Ikaria Parents’ Association tomorrow, Wednesday, June 21 at 1:00 in the afternoon at the Rahon Polyclinic for the movement of the only doctor that exists in Rahes Ikaria.

The general practitioner, at the Regional Polyclinic Clinic of Rahon, Stamatia Zoumboulilis, is on call at the Evdilos Health Center, as a result a large area of ​​the island remains literally uncovered, as she explains speaking to ERT.

We are talking about an area that numbers approx 2,500 thousand inhabitants and with the tourist season greatly increasing this number.

They ask a man to work 365 days

“The Regional Clinic covers many elderly people and many young children. In total, medical care is provided to 2,500 people, which in summer this number triples… at least. The specific Clinic, as a Multi-Physician, should have a general practitioner, a pediatrician, a nurse and a laboratory assistant. If he has a general doctor, who does not have the position of a permanent doctor, but of a rural doctor… Therefore, all these positions are unfilled and only one announcement has been made in 2017,” says the doctor.

“We are asking for staffing, staffing of the Health Center, which is half an hour away, staffing of the Clinic. I point out that the ambulance is at best half an hour away from here, if the shift is at the Health Center. If the shift is at the Hospital, the ambulance is an hour and a half away. You understand that the conditions are very difficult for us. With these conditions, they ask me to do five shifts at the Evdilos Health Center, to be away from the village at least five days a month, and on all the other days they ask a person to work 365 days”, explains Mrs. Zoumbouli.