A work stoppage in Attica 8.00-15.00 and a 24-hour strike in the Region has decided tomorrow by the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Public Hospitals Workers (POEDIN), demanding the resolution of financial and institutional demands.

Hospital workers will gather at 8.30am at Mavili Square and march to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health.

“The public health system is on the limits of its strengths due to serious staff shortages,” the Federation said, noting that the emergency hospitals “are inseparable”.

He adds that “the emergency of a large hospital are visited by about 1,000 people for examination. The wait exceeds 8 hours. The inseparable is prevalent in the abnormal and pulmonary clinics of the emergency. Imports of patients are less than 20% of the emergencies. The shortcomings in primary care are once again highlighted, “the federation said. He notes that more than 50% of the patients and admissions to the Attica and Thessaloniki hospitals are from the region and this proves the serious deficiencies of the regional hospitals.

According to POEDIN, “from the end of the pandemic to date we have 4,000 less staff in the NHS”, while the wave of massive departures is related to adverse working conditions, labor exhaustion, continuous movements, low pay.

He adds that public health costs remain in 5.5% of GDP, two units below the average of the European Union countries. The recruitment balance, withdrawals is negative. Also, “hospitals are due to € 1.36 billion in arrears and are unable to maintain equipment and infrastructure beyond the ongoing building upgrades”.

POEDIN is seeking recruitment of permanent staff with increased auxiliaries, a revision of the dangerous and unhealthy work allowance, an increase in public health expenditure. He considers a “cause of war the abolition of hospital units”, noting that there are 3.5 beds per 1,000 inhabitants in our country, while the average in European Union countries is 5.3 beds per 1,000 inhabitants.