Prosecution investigation into the complaints of Professor Vasilakopoulos about the ICU in “Laiko” |

The subject of the prosecutor’s investigation will be what the professor of Pulmonology and Intensive Care Theodoros Vasilakopoulos claimed on a television station about the increase in mortality, during the previous wave of the pandemic, due to improper staffing of the five ICUs that had been created at the People’s Hospital.

According to what the professor said three days ago on the television station OPEN, the disputed Units of the People’s Hospital, which are no longer functioning, were inefficient due to insufficient infrastructure: “A department was developed, it did not have the best success, if you take the percentages mortality in the department you will be disappointed, I can not say more “he said characteristically.

According to the statements of the professor of the Medical School of Athens “today all the intensive care beds that exist in the People’s Hospital are fully operational”.

However, as Mr. Vasilakopoulos stated during his TV appearance: “Last spring, some beds were created in the coronavirus clinic. These were staffed, they functioned for a while as ICU beds, there was not even compressed air. “So five beds were created from the units, due to a technical problem. When this unit was operating, it operated for a certain period of time with very mediocre, lenient characterization, results”, said among others Mr. Vasilakopoulos, pointing out that the “The limit of the country’s ability to create ICUs with the right results, mortality and efficiency, has been exceeded”.

The purpose of the preliminary examination, which will be conducted by a Prosecutor, is to first establish the validity of the Professor’s complaints and then to investigate whether there is a possible commission of criminal acts in the case in order to identify the perpetrators.