The prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Piraeus Tzanio General Hospitalwhere extensive renovation and modernization work has been completed in the past, and interventions for reconstruction and upgrading of the Emergency Department are now beginning.

The prime minister was guided by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and Hospital Administrator Anastasios Myatalgos on the 4th and 5th floor, where upgraded units of neurosurgery, surgery and pathological have been delivered. He also had the opportunity to visit the refurbished facilities on the 1st and 3rd floor, where the projects were completed at the beginning of last year.

Projects in Tzanios Hospital Units occupy a total area of ​​4,000 square meters and include patient chambers, staff offices, support sites, the creation of 32 new baths and the complete reconstruction of 18 complexes of public hygiene.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis had the opportunity to talk to workers and patients who highlighted the radical improvement of January’s infrastructure and the great effort made to reform the National Health System.

The prime minister was also informed of the timetable of rebuilding, reorganization and upgrading of the Hospital ICT within 12 months, with the aim of developing spaces of 570 sq.m. but also for the renovation of 390 sq.m. of the existing department, while the service of citizens will continue normally.

Interventions at the GNP Tzanio are part of the broader NHS upgrading program and other public health structures with resources of the recovery and resilience fund.

At the end of the visit, the Prime Minister said:

“I am really so glad to visit the Tzanio Hospital for the second time – an iconic hospital, so identified with Piraeus – within fifteen months, to find out the great progress that has been made at this hospital. We are essentially talking about a new hospital that has nothing to envy any of the best private sector hospitals.

We are truly proud to be endowed with the national health system with such infrastructure. And I would say that the best proof that here really is changing in the national health system is the smiles of satisfaction and the patients, but especially for workers, who remember what Janeio was before and recognize the huge progress that has been made.

I would like to reiterate once again that this project, like many others, which will be delivered within the next time, are funded by European resources and especially by the recovery fund.

And this is again the best proof that the resources of the recovery fund are not directed to a few, as some insist, but eventually allow us to upgrade infrastructure that serves many.

The national health system is changing. In two years from now we will have too many fully equipped and state-of-the-art emergency departments in all our major hospitals, have upgraded more than 150 health centers and have made our commitment that we are building step by step, lithiaki-Lithaki, a new Greek system.

Congratulations again to the administration and to all those who worked to do this important work. It is not easy to renovate a hospital on the go, because the hospital should obviously still work. But you did it, and we are very happy that we were able to give you the opportunity to modernize this hospital, which is so identified with the history of Piraeus. ”

For his part, the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis said:

“Mr President, we had visited this hospital 13 months ago, when he began renovating a great hospital, but his facilities were really too old. I recall that the chambers we received were with nine beds without a toilet.

After 14 months we received the four floors fully renovated, the first, the third, the fourth and the fifth and now we started the contract for the ICTs, where we will have a brand new TEP, worthy of a really great hospital in one year from today.

We would like to thank you, and especially HRIP and Mr. Stamboulides and his team, because through the recovery fund you gave the NHS the opportunity to become a new NHS and you heard patients what you were told. “