The afternoon surgeries were at the cutting edge of the confrontation, earlier today in the Parliament, after the assessment-certainty expressed by the SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis that they will not “walk”.

The image presented by Mr. Polakis was challenged by the Deputy Minister of Health Mario Themistocleuswho presented data according to which, in the almost one month of operation of the afternoon surgeries, 300 citizens have been operated on and another 170 are planned in the next 14 days.

“With the afternoon surgeries, this height of Thatcherite neo-Adonism of far-right health policy, in the one month of implementation, the … you cracked the list. Evangelism, there were eight afternoon surgeries, in Attiko there were 14, in Larissa, where there is a nest of adonists where they run it, about twenty. In a few words, barely 100 have been performed throughout the country and half of them, maybe more, are not from the list” said Pavlos Polakis, who estimated that the narrative that doctors rush to perform afternoon surgeries and that with in this way, the list of 107,000 patients waiting for surgery in the country’s hospitals will be dissolved.

The SYRIZA member of parliament estimated that the afternoon surgeries will not be successful because the necessary personnel are not available. “You turn a blind eye to some morning-time smugglers taking sachets and tell them to go black. You think they will whiten them. A smuggler does not become a legal trader, take it easy,” said Mr. Polakis.

“You were telling us that the afternoon surgeries would not work. With the data so far, 288 afternoon surgeries have been performed, until the day before yesterday, today it is a little over 300 and there are around 170 scheduled afternoon surgeries, within the next 14 days” answered the Deputy Minister of Health Marios Themistokleous.

The Deputy Minister of Health he also commented on Mr. Polakis’ reports to the NHS doctors who perform afternoon surgeries. “You called the NHS doctors who performed afternoon surgeries smugglers. Mr. Strantzalis in Evangelism, a smuggler? Is it Professor Strantzalis in Evangelism, we all know who we’re talking about, is he a smuggler? I call on all the doctors who are fighting doctors of the National Health Service to see the statement of Mr. Polakis that they are smugglers” said the Deputy Minister of Health.