“The NHS is collapsing throughout the territory and instead of a brave investment in human resources, with mass announcements of permanent positions, with doubling of staff salaries and substantial incentives for the inclusion and scientific development of health workers in the NHS, the government is “discovering” afternoon surgeries » says the New Left in its statement.

He emphasizes that “in the country where four out of 10 citizens postpone the coverage of health needs because their disposable income is not enough, and over 60% of households “make the month” until the 19th day, the Minister of Health has the audacity to announce a price list for the afternoon surgeries”. He comments that “to the crisis of understaffing of the NHS and the unmet health needs of the citizens, the Ministry of Health responds with afternoon surgeries for which the citizen will (again) pay from 300 to 2,000 euros to be operated on in a public hospital”.

New Left notes that, at the same time, a series of questions are being raised: “At a time when even pediatric hospitals in the capital are at risk of suspending the regular operation of their operating theaters because there are no anesthetists and operating room nurses, how will the NHS respond with the same staff in the afternoons surgeries? Which hospital qualifies for evening surgeries, who will support the surgeon in the evening surgeries when the few specialist doctors and insufficient nursing staff are already exhausted? How will the post-operative course of a patient be supported in the afternoon, when the beds for hospitalization, simple and specialized care (ICU, MAF), do not arrive and many on-calls in the basin begin with a ranch?”.

The New Left reports that “the Minister of Health, despite the tax surpluses of the last two years and contrary to the argumentation of the government’s triumph for growth, prosperity and recovery of the investment level, said yesterday that there is no money for recruitment and salary increases in the National Health Service ». He therefore comments that “it is obviously a specific political choice and perception of reality” and that “for the Minister of Health it is not the first time that when reality does not agree with him, so much the worse for reality”.