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Greece - A report of medicine shortage in hospitals
Source: MicroMega, in Italian (automatic translation): http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-...-piu-medicine/
In Greek hospitals, no more medication
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Since the beginning of the year and the installation of the caretaker government headed by Lucas Papademos, one of the earliest and most egregious forms of protest was the one that has played a key role physicians, nurses and technicians Hospital of Kilkis, in Macedonia. Here, on 13 February, the staff decided, after a vote held after a meeting with high participation, to begin a strike and occupy the hospital to protest the cuts that have made it extremely difficult smooth operation of the facility. "Since the signing of the first memorandum," he says Leta Zotaki, radiologist that the protest was one of the principal organizers and inspiring, "we started having a lot of problems, especially in terms of lack of personnel, materials, medicines and instruments of daily use. As just one example, we found ourselves having to face a chronic lack of needles. " In Greece, the health system is highly centralized, and hospitals have no financial autonomy and spending. For about two years, the ministry has begun to reduce transfers to the individual units, to unify the administrative point of view different treatment centers (a move that, according to many, a prelude to a reduction in the number of existing principals in the area), to cut the beds and reducing salaries.
In Greek hospitals, no more medication
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Since the beginning of the year and the installation of the caretaker government headed by Lucas Papademos, one of the earliest and most egregious forms of protest was the one that has played a key role physicians, nurses and technicians Hospital of Kilkis, in Macedonia. Here, on 13 February, the staff decided, after a vote held after a meeting with high participation, to begin a strike and occupy the hospital to protest the cuts that have made it extremely difficult smooth operation of the facility. "Since the signing of the first memorandum," he says Leta Zotaki, radiologist that the protest was one of the principal organizers and inspiring, "we started having a lot of problems, especially in terms of lack of personnel, materials, medicines and instruments of daily use. As just one example, we found ourselves having to face a chronic lack of needles. " In Greece, the health system is highly centralized, and hospitals have no financial autonomy and spending. For about two years, the ministry has begun to reduce transfers to the individual units, to unify the administrative point of view different treatment centers (a move that, according to many, a prelude to a reduction in the number of existing principals in the area), to cut the beds and reducing salaries.
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