They are on the verge of collapse the doctors of the Kalamata hospitalas they complain in their announcement, in which they talk about grueling hours due to staff shortages.

In the announcement of the doctors published by messinialive.gr:

“We complain that today 03-14-24 the Pathology Clinics of the Kalamata Hospital Unit of the Messinia General Hospital are without a qualified pathologist on active duty.

By relevant decision of the Director of G.N.M. the Doctor who was on active duty today (14-03-24) will not perform it, in order to cover tomorrow’s duty (15-03-24) at G.N.Spartis to which he is moving after a relevant mandate from the Commander of the 6th H.P.E.
We have repeatedly touched on the precariousness of the vicarage of pathological clinics.
The pathology clinic of the Kalamata hospital due to understaffing, now works exclusively with our colleagues in the red as they are forced to work even continuous 48 hours. Despite their workload, they do not manage to cover all the days of the month with safe vigilance, i.e. on active vigilance. There are days of the month when the clinics are with a doctor on mixed or standby duty and unfortunately there are also days of the month when there is no doctor at all in one of the 2 clinics, with all that this entails for patient safety. All colleagues have accumulated regular leave from previous years, which with the current state of the clinics it is impossible to pay off, with a direct consequence of the work burnout of our pathologists which is now starting to create visible health problems.

The Administration of the Hospital and the 6th H.P.E. they are aware of this acute problem and yet in the last announcement of permanent medical positions there was not a single pathologist position!
Today, however, the situation is considered particularly critical and the District Attorney has been informed, as the health and lives of the nurses are threatened, because from 9:00 p.m. onwards, a qualified pathologist will not be inside the Hospital premises and in any of the 2 clinics.

The Commander of the 6th H.P.E. knows that “the on-call problem of the pathology clinic of G. N. Spartis” is taking time due to its empty organizational positions and its failure to arrange for the positions to be advertised. The on-call problem of the pathology clinic of G.N. Sparta did not arise out of extraordinary needs, but it is timeless, the result of maintaining vacancies in the relevant organic positions. We have repeatedly mentioned the precariousness of the movement of doctors, i.e. the risk of harming the health of hospitalized patients, as well as endangering their lives. This is the offense of exposure. Hospitalized patients have their treating physician. The doctors who are “ordered to be on duty” do not become treating doctors of the patients of the hospital, to which they move. They simply present themselves in it as a point of view. Medicine, however, is not practiced that way. Medicine is practiced by doctors on patients, who are treated in the department of the hospital in which they serve. Thus, they know each patient from the moment they are admitted, collectively, under the scientific responsibility of the Director of the department, they arrive at a diagnosis and treatment, they monitor every day whether the treatment has worked or not, which they can even change.

Their “shift” in N.M. Spartis is without knowledge of the patient’s condition – the course of his illness, which certainly puts both the patient and the doctor at risk, should the inevitable happen.
Experience so far has shown how relocations result in the downgrading and closing of medical departments with mathematical precision.

Our complete moral, scientific and labor discredit leaves no other
option to many colleagues beyond resignation to preserve
elementarily their dignity.

– Stop the movements immediately. They are not the solution to her problem
understaffing.
– To give an increase to the salaries of health workers and to establish special incentives for
the region.
– To immediately announce all the vacant organic positions in both hospitals of our prefecture”.