“The establishment of mixed EMS crews, utilizing the Army and the Fire Department, has nothing to do with pre-hospital emergency care and the provision of essential care services at the scene that patients and our people need. These are measures that correspond to the policy of cutting people’s health needs, because they “cost” the state” points out the KKE in its comment on the meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the leadership of the Ministry of Health.

“The like-for-like transportation of patients is cheaper for them than the “costly” full development of public health units everywhere and public emergency pre-hospital care, which require the existence of permanent infrastructure, permanent trained staff and the adequacy of air, sea and land means” adds the KKE and concludes:

“That is why the government of ND is oriented towards cheap services, which are very likely to endanger patients and those with an “eye” oriented to the needs of the tourist capital during this period. These are, after all, the priorities of the EU and the Recovery Fund, which, by the way, does not provide a single euro for the needs of the EKAB”.