Another three doctors are leaving the General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos, as their contracts expire. The biggest and busiest Hospital in the Prefecture of Lassithi, which is already struggling under existing staff shortages, is being held together by the remaining staff who are working at full stretch and with days off and leave due to them, now backing up for almost two years.
Doctors are doing nursing duties themselves and apart from covering duties with their in-patients, they are also trying to maintain and provide for the ever growing needs of the out-patient departments.
The staff have again warned of the dangerous situation which exists and continues to deteriorate and are asking for the immediate employment of additional and essential staff.
The President of the Workforce of the General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos spoke to Thanos Korobilias on Lato 103,3 yesterday, on the day of a National Strike by the Panhellenic Federation of Workers in Public Hospitals. In Athens, representatives of the P.F.W.P.H. built a wall outside the entrance to the Ministry for Health and erecting a sign which said “Closed – moved to Brussels” – obviously insinuating that the Greek government were now without powers and could only act after consultation with lenders and the technocrats in Brussels.