In the statements of the ND MP Yannis Kallianou regarding the conditions of his father’s hospitalization at “Attikon” hospital, answered today Hospital Employees Union.

“We have not taken a position for a long time on the case of the ND MP’s father out of respect for the patient. Beyond our sincere condolences to the environment of the deceased, the time has come to do so because these days we are watching the exploitation – in public view – of the loss of another fellow human being”.

As the Workers’ Union states in its announcement, “ND MP Kallianos, from social media, before and after the death of his father, slings mud and threats against the doctors and nurses of the ATTIKON hospital and especially in the Vascular surgery clinic.

While he has voted for measures to privatize and commercialize the public health system, he directly threatens doctors and nurses (“they haven’t imagined what they have to suffer from me and my brother”), indirectly even calling for violence (?) against health personnel, directing the people’s anger at the dysfunction of the NHS towards the health workers and not at the policies of the governments that led it here. After all, he hastened to declare that he has nothing to do with “friend” Adonis Georgiadis and the government’s policy for this reason, and he can very well impeach the health workers!

To explain: At the Attica hospital after each shift there are 70-80 sick people on gurneys and stretchers and there can be no “special” nursing care when in a ward of 40 patients, with serious health problems, there are two nurses on shift.

When we claimed to increase the number of ICUs during the pandemic and we complained that in dozens of hospitals in the country (not in Attica – as an exception) there are dozens of patients every day waiting intubated in a common ward looking for an ICU bed across the country MP Kallianos himself answered us that “there is no patient who stays outside the ICU”. The culmination of this criminal policy were the statements of the country’s prime minister and president of the party to which Mr. Kallianos belongs, who officially told the Parliament that “We have no evidence of higher mortality in patients who are intubated outside the ICU, compared to those who are in intensive care units”.

The sensitivity of health workers does not begin and end when a relative is faced with problems. This is not our world. Health workers and their movement are with the people in the fight for free health. Enemies have only the policy that wants to break them up and make them a market for “customers”.