With the main request to find immediate solutions to the issues of health and welfare, today, 13/2, a protest rally is held in the National Resistance Square (formerly Kotzia), at 10:30, by the cooperating pension organizations. Then, they plan a march to the Ministry of Health.

As they announced, the main claims are as follows:

“- Public, free and universal health-welfare system fully funded by the state.

– Ensuring by the state free, complete and unhindered medical care and hospitalization for everyone.

– Full and adequate state funding of public hospitals, Health Centers and other health units from the state budget.

– Mass recruitment of permanent staff, full-time and full-time, of all branches and specialties, in public hospitals, Health Centers and other health units. Permanentization of all contract and adjuncts.

– Not to close or merge any department, clinic, hospital and Health Center. To fully reopen the hospitals and all the structures that were closed due to cuts.

– Abolition of any type of payment in Health.

– Absolutely free, with 100% coverage from the state budget, medicines, treatments, modern therapeutic means and technological aids for everyone with no limit, ceiling or exclusion for insured or uninsured, Greeks or immigrants.

– Full staffing of EKAB with permanent staff, according to needs. Renewal of the EKAB fleet, with development of the necessary number of ambulances, ground-floating-air means. Staffing of the technical maintenance service of the fleet with all the necessary permanent staff.

– No privatization-commercialization of the public health system.

– Rural clinics staffed in all villages.

– To organize special care with health and social services for people with special needs and their families, the elderly, the chronically ill and those with kidney disease.

– Public and free program “Help at Home” for all, without caps, exemptions and cuts, with the necessary permanent staff.

– Free movement of patients and their companions.

– Creation of public structures and nursing homes for the elderly.

– Substantial public health protection measures linked to all levels of the public health system and provided free of charge.

– No to the abolition of special psychiatric hospitals”.