Reactions are caused by what the professor of Medicine and candidate for Evia parliament with the ND, Spyros Pneumatikos, said to Sky 100.3 and Aris Portosalte about “choice” in treating patients. In fact, with her statement, the professor of Medicine and SYRIZA candidate for parliament, Athina Linou, stated that the statement of Mr. Pneumatikos is “revealing about the ND’s plan to screen patients according to the cost of treatment”

“The statement of Mr. Pneumatikos is scary, he talks about selecting patients depending on the cost of the treatment. However, this statement reveals the ND’s plan for Health. ND does not intend to invest in either health workers or infrastructure. For this reason, we have already experienced 3 deaths due to a lack of staff in the EMS. The restructuring of the NHS aims at a public free and universal provision of quality health services to everyone, regardless of socio-economic status or place of residence. This can only be achieved by SYRIZA PS which believes in the value of the human person and of course in a strong social state. The dilemma of the elections is clear”said Mrs. Linou.

It is recalled that Mr. Pneumatikos had said earlier today, to Sky 100.3 and Aris Portosalte:

“We have to see the evaluation of the actions. How many of these actions we do every day are needed? That is, a cost of enormous proportions can be made if we limit some things from those that do not need to be done. It doesn’t mean we don’t love the sick person if we go and tell them “there’s no point in doing this for you”. A terminal cancer patient is not mandatory… He won’t make it, he doesn’t have a good prognosis, we have to draw a line at some point. Why; Because it is very difficult to be able to cope with the expenses needed to deal with fellow human beings. There is a point where you have no reason to do anything more. Someone will tell me that the good God has decided otherwise. But indeed, this thing is true, but at the end of the day what will happen?

They have seen these things… America is a scary example: They look for everything, they look for the cost of actions, the cost benefit ratio in an action, etc. When we went to America in the early 90s with my wife, the first conversation we had heard was really how expensive the american system is. Why was it so very expensive? Because everyone arrived at the hospital, in whatever condition they were, and everything was done for everyone. And in this way they discovered that after a while they would not be able to provide services to anyone. So they have to make a relative choice of how much they can spend… It sounds a bit cynical – It’s not cynical, it’s humane, because if the service I provide to someone is not going to save their life, I’m getting it from someone else who will could have saved his life.”