The president of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, referring to the SYRIZA-PS program for Health, stressed that it does not include an extreme increase of expenses but its support with 3 billion in the next three years in order to be in line with the European average.
The view that the SYRIZA-PS program for the reconstruction of public health includes in addition to salary interventions and institutional reorientation was expressed the president of the party, Alexis Tsipras in the context of the Conference organized by ygeiamou.gr on “The Health System in the New Era”.
“We have to admit that the pandemic showed huge shortages on a global scale, pan-European and in our country”, said Al. Tsipras, emphasizing that during the memorandum years there was a “dramatic bleeding” of public health with the result that we are now faced with “dramatic indicators” of mortality and referring to the Black Paper on Health recently published by SYRIZA-PS.
Al. Tsipras, referring to the SYRIZA-PS program for Health, stressed that it does not include an extreme increase in expenditures but its support with 3 billion over the next three years in order to be in line with the European average.
“If I came and told you that we have to give 3 billion for defense spending, you would not tell me ‘where did you get the money?’ “Why is there always this question when we talk about public health?” He asked.
As he mentioned, in the plan of SYRIZA-PS there is a provision for the support of human resources, including prevention and redistribution of resources in order to motivate the new doctors to stay in the NSS but at the same time special importance is given to the upgrading of Primary Care and Primary Care. family physician, as well as in improving the interconnection and the individual patient file and in prevention.
