Immortal Greek football: a 26-year-old goalkeeper was taken to the Health Center in a farmer’s cart!

Great things in Greek football this year 2024! As it states lamianow.grin farm car cartelected member of the municipality of Riga Feraiou, was transferred from the municipal stadium of Velestino to the town’s Health Center, a football player, who was injured during a match!

Football players, actors and spectators, were surprised to see the farm parked behind the goal and being transferred on the cart of a farm to transport to the Velestino Health Center the Senegalese goalkeeper of Saracens Saba Fage, who had injured his ribs. Of course, there was no ambulance at the stadium. The one and only vehicle of the Health Center at that time was on transit in Kanalia. So, in order not to waste time, the agents decided to transport the injured person with the agricultural vehicle.

After he was given first aid he had to stay at the Health Center until the ambulance returned from Kanalia and took him to Volos Hospitalas he had to undergo further tests.

Fortunately, in the end, he did not have to stay for hospitalization and the suffering he went through on the farm did not “cost” an additional burden on his health, while the 26-year-old is sure to remember his adventure for a long time.

Farming at the service of… patients

The Velestino Health Center has only one ambulance now. This is the vehicle, which was donated by EVOL some years ago. A second one, which existed since the Olympic Games“ate his breads” and was decommissioned. The only, now, ambulance is used 365 days a year, if it is necessary to make a transfer from the Velestino Health Center. And of course, on the condition that there will be a driver on shift, because a total of four people work in this particular structure and the shifts are not covered on a 24-hour basis. Depending on the schedule, which comes out every 8 hours, transfers are made with the assistance of the EKAV Volos sector.

The day before yesterday, Sunday afternoon, an ambulance driver was there, but he had, however, gone to an emergency with a patient who suffered an allergic shock in Kanalia. Thus, the Senegalese goalkeeper found himself… being transported on a farm.

He was injured 20 minutes before the end of the match between Rigas Feraios-Sarakinos, when he collided with a player of Rigas Feraios while leaving his home ground and he fell down fainting. According to information, the doctor immediately rushed to his side, however the 26-year-old goalkeeper could not recover his strength.

In fact, Fage saw the red card for his outing, as the player of Riga Feraios, Dimitris Garos, was also injured, who suffered a concussion.

Speaking to POST OFFICE the president of Sarakinos, Theodoros Glavinis, pointed out that “in his misfortune the player was lucky as his injury was not, after all, as serious as first thought». However, Mr. Glavinis stated his concern, underlining that “it is not possible for an entire municipality to be covered by a single ambulance».

G. Gatis: We shout, they don’t listen to us

For the same subject it was placed on POST OFFICE also the president of the association of workers at the Health Centers of Magnesia. Confirming the development of the incident frame by frame, Mr. Gatis said that the problem with shortages in Health Centers is chronic and that apart from the uncovered shiftsthe vehicles are not sufficient when it comes to covering areas with many villages and in fact, far from the seat of the municipality. “A few days ago, our association together with the association of Fthiotida and Larissa, in the presence of the president of POEDIN Michalis Giannakos, we had a meeting with the Governor, we raised all the problems again, but answers to most of them were not given. What they made clear to us is that apart from doctors who will start additional recruitments, there are no new ones for the rest of the staff. To cover the shifts, they proposed the solution of block employment. I don’t know how effective it can be“, commented the president, maintaining his reservations.

Today, however, the Velestino Health Center employs a total of four drivers in one ambulance. Two permanent, one with a block and one auxiliary, the shifts, however, for the whole month (with days off and holidays) are not covered.