Tsipras from Hippocrates: If the Prime Minister can not decide on the pandemic, to leave |

“If the prime minister cannot make difficult decisions about the Pandemic, if he cannot persuade the people to proceed with the vaccination, then it is better for him to leave in order to save as many of our fellow human beings as we can,” said the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance president. Alexis Tsipras, who suddenly visited the Hippocratic Hospital of Thessaloniki. “We are in the most difficult days of the pandemic and, unfortunately, with the government having already resigned,” said Mr. Tsipras, addressing the citizens and urging them to hurry to make the third dose of the vaccine and to generally observe the protection measures against it. coroner.

The Prime Minister should not be a denier of reality

“The government has to admit that things are very difficult. The Prime Minister should not be a denier of reality. Admit the difficulty. He has to make critical and difficult decisions. If he can not make difficult decisions, if he can not persuade citizens to get vaccinated, if he can not manage the pandemic in terms of protection against public health and citizens, then it is better to leave to save as many of our fellow human beings as we can to save “, he pointed out and added:” But this third world situation, which prevails in our hospitals, two years later and with a staff that has suffered a lot and now, unfortunately, is not even applauded, sometimes it is even beaten when it protests, it can no longer continue. “
He accused Kyriakos Mitsotakis that “he has declared the end of the pandemic three times since last February and now we are, unfortunately, not the last mile, but on a Golgotha ​​which seems to be endless”.
Mr. Tsipras was welcomed at the entrance of the hospital by his commander Nikos Antonakis who informed him that Hippocrates went through a difficult vigil, that all 15 covid Intensive Care beds are full, while four patients are intubated from last night outside the ICU. to find places in the ICU, either inside the hospital or in another, to be transferred there, while being treated with covid and young children.
He then had a meeting with the director and directors of clinics.

Thessaloniki and Northern Greece at the center of the pandemic

Immediately after, the president of SYRIZA-PS told the journalists: “I visited today the Hippocratic Hospital of Thessaloniki to see for myself the situation experienced by nurses, doctors, health personnel. Thessaloniki, like all of Northern Greece, is once again the epicenter of the pandemic. Unfortunately, however, much earlier than last year. In the corresponding period this year, at the beginning of November, we are in a charge almost twice as much as the corresponding charge we had last year at such a time. The cases are rising. So, we have a very difficult winter ahead of us and I wonder when the government will take political responsibility to make difficult decisions. Above all, however, to stop a dangerous, in my opinion, perception that pervades Greek society that what we live in is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. Apart from the fact that it is, one might say, racist towards 40% of our fellow citizens, who are of course responsible for the fact that they have not been vaccinated, but the government is also responsible because it has not convinced them. It is dangerous because it creates a feeling of relaxation in the remaining 60% who have been vaccinated.
I asked and got information regarding a 20% in the covid clinics that are vaccinated and for a percentage in the Intensive Care Units that are vaccinated and sick. This is because the D mutation has somewhat reduced its effectiveness and because we already know that antibodies last for about six months. Which means that we all have to be more careful, to wear our masks, not to act as if the pandemic is over with what we were vaccinated with, despite the fact that the government, in its superficiality, told us that it is an “Freedom” operation, you were vaccinated and you are done. And, most importantly, let us all hurry for the third dose, to reduce this great burden that the health system has today and, above all, to reduce the deaths “.
Mr. Tsipras stressed that in Thessaloniki 18 Intensive Care beds have been donated by the Committee “Greece 2021” and they can not operate yet because there is not the necessary staff.

“Absolute acknowledgment of government failure”

“I wonder, two years have passed, could not the government realize the need to hire doctors of specific specialties and health personnel? Is it possible to hear statements like that of the Deputy Minister of Health, who is not a politician and may be telling some truths, that there are no doctors to staff the intensive care units two years later? And to say, too, that we will soon get to the point where doctors will choose which people to save and put in Intensive Care Units and who to leave out?
These statements, which reflect reality, to be honest, are, at the same time, an acknowledgment of the absolute failure of the government to manage the pandemic. Every week we lose a small village. “October left with 1,200 of our fellow citizens who perished from the pandemic.”
Mr. Tsipras was accompanied by the deputy of B ‘Thessaloniki of SYRIZA and deputy head of Health Dora Avgeris.