The votes of the New Democracy and PASOK approved by the relevant Parliamentary Committee the draft law of the Ministry of Health, amending a donation contract between the Greek State and the Onassis Foundation.

The object of the Onassis Foundation is to form a new wing at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, a new cardiac surgery clinic in the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center and the upgrading of its logistical equipment. The draft law modifies the process of delivery of this project. “Since its temporary receipt has already been completed without finding shortages and problems, with the ratification of the proposed contract, it will be possible to operate the new wing immediately, for the benefit of the patients and the community,” he said in the explanatory memorandum of the draft law. PASOK said for their final stance on the plenary session- PASOK said- while the KKE has been “present” to the House of Commerce Committee on Social Affairs.

“This project is not fulfilled public expense, it is a donation contract. However, it remains a project of public interest as it concerns the Onassis Hospital. There has been a temporary receipt in accordance with all the procedures provided, without any deficiency, no problem, no need to modify, “said Deputy Minister of Health Irene Agapidakis. By voting for the proposed arrangement, Ms. Agapidakis said, “we will be able to immediately use the operation of the new wing in order to ensure that patients are served faster and earlier. There is nothing else in this legislation that could endanger public health or lack accountability or transparency or anything. We are talking about an existing legislative framework, which we come to use simply to accelerate the operation of the new wing and nothing more. “

“Twenty -one of October we have the inauguration of the Transplant Center in the new wing of the Onassis Hospital. Based on the procedures provided by law in general for donations, we could not do the inauguration and operate normally October 21, although it is completely ready if we did not bring the draft law, “said Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and informed: 2026, Greece can transplant to children as well. I mean liver transplants, which has not made a heart so far. Greece will be transplanted by this since early 2026, in this wing of the Onassis we now receive. At the moment we are talking we have already invited the German trainers to Onassios and have begun the training of our own doctors so that we can do these transplants in Greece. “

The government, the health minister said, places great emphasis on transplants. “From the first moment we took over the governance in 2019, one of the goals set by the Prime Minister to the Ministry of Health, was the increase in the number of transplants in Greece and we have taken many steps for it,” Mr Georgiadis said, referring to the steps that have taken place, namely the Hospital, the increase in donors. “We are steadily increasing a large increase in body donors and transplants in the country as a whole,” the health minister said, noting: “Already, from Friday night, through HIDA, we are sent to all Greek citizens, until recently, we have been sent to about 11 million and a half million. ID. This message will come from the National Transplant Organization, it has more life donation. I would also like to say from the sacred step of the Hellenic Parliament, that I call on the world to do so, it is an act of great altruism. I say to the world, don’t be afraid, to do it. Let all do it. It is a great act of altruism. It naturally transcends our parties and political confrontations, it is a purely human issue and will make a big difference if we can catch a large number. I have an expectation to catch hundreds of thousands of yes, out of the 10 million e-mails we will send and build a very solid database that will lead our index to compare to northern European countries in the coming years. “

ND rapporteur Xenophon Baraliakos said that the amendment of the contract is completed, a cycle and one of the most important health investments of recent decades will be delivered as soon as possible to citizens. “The bill includes a basic amendment to the process of definitive receipt of the project and its complete institutional completion. There is now a clear framework that ensures that the new wing will be launched immediately, without unnecessary delays and bureaucratic obstacles, “the ND MP said, stressing that the government proves in practice that it knows how to honor, use and convert them to public donations. Citizens.

PASOK rapporteur Ioannis Tsimaris said that the subject of the contract is a project with deep social and scientific weight and emphasized that his party comes to the debate with three key priorities: the efficient functioning of the NHS, the transparency in the management of public interest and the protection of the public. “The new wing will greatly enhance the potential of cardiac surgery and transplant care in our country, increase the quality of service and upgrade patients’ safety,” Mr Tsimaris said, noting that PASOK would vote in favor of modifying the contract because it would allow it. However, the MP pointed out that there should be rigorous and independent technical inspection, because the rush “should not be transformed into a quality pending”.

SYRIZA Specialist Andreas Panagiotopoulos said that the Greek State Agreement with the Alexandros Onassis Foundation was an emblematic agreement of the SYRIZA government in 2018, before the country came out of the country of fiscal and the country. He also underlined that “Greece went bankrupt because of the devastating policies of the parties that ruled it from 1975 to 2010, namely ND and PASOK”, that “the first two memorandums were implemented to the antenna, by ND and PASOK, in order to save the foreign banks” They fought, with an infinite struggle against the SYRIZA government, who smoothed it and managed to accomplish it successfully, in August 2018, when Greece was free from the brutal memorandum obligations, regulated its debt and re -claimed it. “

These reports caused the reaction of the Deputy Minister of Health Irene Agapidakis. “Mr Panagiotopoulos, today Alexis Tsipras left SYRIZA. And today you are here at a meeting of a significant public health project that will serve thousands of patients, to sanctify the Tsipras Memorandum, the SYRIZA Memorandum. You came to tell us that it was necessary, good, that it helped the homeland, and we all know it was a memorandum unbearable, unbearable, it was about to destroy the country, “the Deputy Minister of Health said, and commented:” I understand that it is difficult to see. I understand it politically, it is painful. But it is impossible to rewrite the facts. It has bribed your party long before Mr Tsipras leaves, now the meteries are coming. “

KKE Specialist George Lambroulis explained that his party does not obtain objections to the development of health and health structures that help in timely prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of patients. Nor does it challenge the high scientific competence and modern therapeutic methods applied to Onassis, much more concerning serious heart problems and child population. But he noted that the KKE’s main disagreement lies in that “both the existing cardiac surgery center and the new infrastructure, essentially and practically, will be a modern business unit, in a critical area of ​​people’s health needs. He reiterated that the health sector cannot depend on the charity and volunteering of business groups.

The special market for Greek solution Maria Athanasiou acknowledged that the donation contract has obvious benefit. At the same time, however, he accused the government of tolerating NHS underfunding, allowing it to be systematically downgraded. This amendment suffers from excessive bureaucratic structure, while the relevant favorable arrangements for the implementation body, in the event of inactivity, receipt, as well as the limited period of responsibility for “secret defects”, leave room for weaknesses in protecting the public interest, said.

New left -wing speaker Ozgur Ferhatt said that his party supports donations, considers them welcome and necessary, “since they aim to strengthen public structures and health services in the country”. But he expressed his opposition to unjustified delays and any ideological and political tooling of these donations, and estimated that health inequalities would be further strengthened. The New Left MP pointed out that “in one of the amendments submitted to the House, it has been added to the founding law of the Onassis that the Onassis Hospital will enjoy financial and administrative autonomy and operate on the basis of the principles of the private economy,”

Tasos Economopoulos’ specialist Specialist said that his party is not against any donation to the State, as long as minimal conditions are met, in terms of the legality of donated data and in the process, which should not hinder the functioning of the State. He noted, however, that the text of the bill does not show any harmful regulation or condition for the State, regarding the new public wing.

“There are positive elements in the amendment, which, if implemented properly, will prove to be beneficial,” said Spyros Bibilas Specialist Spyros Bibilas, who, however, noted that “there is ambiguity in terms of responsibility” and the amendment “leaves duplicate or some.” There is a risk of over -pricing or abusive expenditure, Mr Bibilas also said, warning that “the amendment can open some windows for excessive costs or non -justified costs”.