“For a new fiasco with the rapid tests”, the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras accused the government, speaking in a teleconference with epidemiologists and scientists about the evolution of the pandemic, the “Omicron” mutation and the measures that must be taken by the government .
In his presentation, Mr. Tsipras stated: “The situation is extremely serious, the only thing that is not serious, unfortunately, is the government. “All over Europe, there has been an alarm for the holidays in view of the” Omicron “mutation, but unfortunately in our country, on the one hand, the inactivity and on the other hand, the criminal regressions that dissolve the last nuggets of citizens’ trust in the state and government.”
The new fiasco with the rapid tests that would be paid by vaccinated and unvaccinated, as the government ministers said for the holidays, is indicative of the lack of planning, since after the reasonable reactions they turned into a self test, which is extremely reduced reliability, said Mr. Tsipras added: “And all this, of course, once again in the absence of scientists, since members of the Commission denied that they made a relevant proposal.”
Addressing the scientists, he said that he convened the meeting “to see what needs to be done now, immediately, to avoid the worst and possibly another catastrophic lockdown that will once again seal the failed policy pursued. “I want to hear your thoughts, your suggestions on what we need to do to save what is saved.”
Mr. Tsipras criticized the government for its actions and omissions from the outbreak of the pandemic and submitted the proposals of his party, while he also asked for the proposals of the scientists.
“It is unthinkable 2 years later, to still talk about testing and tracking. Rapid tests should be made available to all citizens, vaccinated and unvaccinated, obviously with compensation from the State, and not self-tests that are of reduced reliability.
It is inconceivable that we have exceeded 20,000 dead, that we have this macabre first in all of Europe and one of the worst performances in the world, that we have more than 150 people out of the ICU every day and even now the order for private clinics is not forthcoming. and joining the battle and military hospitals. “Every day people are lost who could be saved, as unfortunately confirmed by the revelation and the study of your colleagues Mr. Tsiodra and Lytra, which not only Mr. Mitsotakis ignored, but continues to ignore today,” he said. Mr. Tsipras.
He called on the government to immediately start recruiting more than 800 doctors who have done their paperwork and are waiting on the lists when they will be appointed, as well as to immediately activate Primary Health Care for pre-hospital care in the fight against the pandemic. The president of SYRIZA also suggested: “To” charge “each case to a corresponding health reference point (structure or health professional), there are protocols developed by the WHO and are implemented either on their own initiative or individually by Health Centers or TOMY. It is an absolutely necessary step to get as many patients as needed to the hospital in time and in better condition, as it is often irreversible.
To finally stop the messages of relaxation and the government nonsense about a pandemic of the unvaccinated and to make the use of a mask mandatory again for everyone, especially in all closed spaces.
Immediately implement extensive teleworking where it can be applied, as workplaces are now one of the main hubs of over-transmission, while thus there will be decongestion in the means of transport.
And of course, schools can not reopen after the holidays as they closed. After the holidays and in view of the Omicron mutation, express substitute teachers must finally be hired through procedures to break up the 28 and 29 student sections. And to change the protocol 50 + 1%, that is, to make 13-14 students ill in order to close a department. Because this, although the children are fortunately slightly ill, means that the virus is transmitted in homes, to parents, grandparents. With a quarter of the daily occurrence cases affecting children under the age of 17, we all understand what this means for the uncontrolled explosion of dispersal within schools. That is why we have proposed and we insist: with the first case the department closes for 3 days and the students return having done a molecular test, which will be reimbursed by the State.
And finally, perhaps most importantly, a new major campaign not only for the third but also the first dose of vaccination, in which our country is in the worst position in Western Europe. A campaign by the standards of Portugal, which has reached the point where it has vaccinated almost 100% of its population. Door to door, in cooperation with the local government that, as the bodies themselves told me in a meeting, their assistance was never requested, with the Help at Home program and primary care.
“These are some self-evident measures that must be taken immediately, measures that are requested by the institutions, with which they have met in the last two weeks”.
The teleconference was attended by the Head of SYRIZA PS Andreas Xanthos, the Professor of Hematology at the Sorbonne University Grigoris Gerotziafas, the Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Oncologist at Harvard Medical School Othonas Iliopoulos, Prof. Pulmonology at EKPA Giannis Kalomenidis, Professor of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the University of Thessaly Pantelis Bagos, Professor of Public Health and member of the Committee of Scientists of the Ministry of Health for the pandemic Takis Panagiotopoulos and Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Environmental Engineering.
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