“The recent terrifying statements of ND MP Spyros Pneumatikos for patient selection according to the cost of treatment in public hospitals, were neither misinterpreted nor isolated,” he says SYRIZA-PS in his statement.

He notes that “a strong proof” of this is “the new video from a speech by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a politician and member of the National Democratic Party at an event at the end of April”, which SYRIZA cites in its announcement.

SYRIZA emphasizes that “there, Spyros Pneumatikos revealed the ND’s hidden agenda for the public NHS. He characteristically stated: “We have a fundamental difference with SYRIZA and the other parties. They believe that the resources should be found by the state.” “Perhaps we should make hospitals legal entities under private law that will have their own balance sheet.” “We will have to break a lot of eggs to finally decide what nursing structures we need, where we need them and in what role.”

Following this, SYRIZA reports that “the ND favors cutting funding for public health and the NHS, the privatization of hospitals and the closing of health units” and comments that “no false apology by Spyros Pneumatikos can hide what a government will bring of ND for millions of citizens in need: Abandonment and economic exploitation”.

Finally, he underlines that in contrast there is the SYRIZA-PS proposal for “a better, public NHS, which provides, among other things, 15,000 targeted recruitments over a four-year period, the establishment of 380 Local Health Units throughout the country and an increase in public expenditure on Health with the aim of convergence with the European average”.