The president of PASOK-Change Movement made a visit to the *Ierapetra hospital* in the morning, Nikos Androulakis, and informed of its operational problems due to understaffing and technological obsolescence.

In his statements, Mr. Androulakis underlined: “After the adventure of the pandemic, there is a huge increase in private health costs for the Greek people. Under these circumstances and the increase in inequalities, strengthening the National Health System is a priority for us. By utilizing 10% of the resources from the Recovery Fund, in order to make a strong primary health network and to give incentives to specialties that are in short supply*. And, of course, also financial incentives for all health workers, not just the pandemic clappers. Here, today, we had a long discussion with the representatives of the Ierapetra hospital. We consider it a priority to join the “type A” hospitals, so that the great need for staff can be met through incentives and not with contract workers and adjuncts, but with permanent staff. There is an immediate need to support the hospital and provide high-level services to the citizens of Ierapetra.”
Responding to a journalist’s question about the *Tragedy of Tempi*, Mr. Androulakis noted: “The tragic accident in Tempi where dozens of our young fellow human beings lost their lives in this violent way, must sound the alarm in the political system. *We need a state that will guarantee security, perspective for the Greek people and not a state that is a client’s booty in the hands of the respective rulers just to secure their chairs.* We will get in the way of these pathogens to build a a state that will above all serve the citizen and the Greek people”.

Commenting on the *increase in the minimum wage*, the President of PASOK – Movement for Change said characteristically: “As I said yesterday from Heraklion, *I hope this is the last intervention of the state regarding the minimum wage. And from now on to be determined through negotiations that will concern the workers and their bodies. And, of course, the three-year terms must work again in order to have decent wages. We live in an era where inflation reduces the incomes of the Greek people. We have a duty to support vulnerable workers. We have a duty to have labor rights in European standards. And, of course, for the collective negotiations to work, and I say this here from Crete, where there is the huge issue of our fellow citizens, who work in the tourism sector”.

Regarding the *red loans* and the auctions, Mr. Androulakis replied: “To stand in the way of non-Hellenism of the Greek economy. Mr. Tsipras promised peace and opened the door for the funds to take the property of the Greek people. Mr. Mitsotakis “executed” the law for the protection of the first residence. I am committed to a legislative framework that leads the funds to transparent negotiations, with specific criteria so that citizens can regulate their loans. There should be protection of the first residence according to the standards of the law, which we, PASOK, established in 2010, and finally 120 installments for debts to the tax office and EFKA and for the consequent reduction of 30% of their capital. The solution for the 80,000 families that have loans in Swiss francs is for the borrower to raise 1/3 and the banking institution to raise 2/3.”