A documentary testimony of what tens of thousands of relatives of patients who ended up intubated outside intensive care from the beginning of the pandemic until today is what he told the 105,5 In Red and George Trapeziotis the teacher Marina Demetriou, which lost her kidney-patient brother last summer, which died intubated in a simple ward hospital, being himself vaccinated against covid-19.
Describes unprecedented conditions with rooms full of cots, zombie doctors running everywhere, nursing staff whose looks caused despair, isolated patients asking for some water just to talk to someone. Her brother like others was intubated in the simple ward where he found a bed initially and that's where he ended up. «You were leaving and you heard his last words, which were “get me out of here”», as it recalls.
«What is happening in the hospitals is criminal, they are pandemic criminals and must be punished, they have left an entire system alone, all the hygienists, to fight, to live their hell.».
«I have my loss, but I also have my wrath, when that wrath becomes the wrath of many, when the pain is over and we can stand on our feet, that's when they'll pay for it, that's all I have to say. ... I don't know what would have happened in the ICU, I know that his death had no dignity, I know that even death has to have dignity and they have taken that away too ... I will gather others with the same anger, I want to denounce them, they are lying».
«Outside ICU - Deceased Victims' Relatives Group, this is what I'm going to make, you'll see it in the next few days, I'll find you to talk, to talk about what we're living, the hell we've been through, nothing else. I have words - and my pain will become anger and will take them and lift them up, because they are pandemic criminals. And what do I want?; I make my offerings, I try to do what I can every day in memory of my brother, yesterday I went to donate blood. It's not enough. I go to church and light my candle. And it's not enough, you know?;».
It is noted that Ms Demetriou contacted 105,5 Sto Kokkino outraged by the statements a day earlier in the same show of the MP of the ND MP Dimitris Markopoulos, who had argued that «there is not what the opposition says, a multitude of deaths of people we have thrown into cots without health care», while at another point had spoken of political exploitation by trade unionism hiding agendas, but also of speculation by SYRIZA.
Here are the shocking words of M. Demetriou:
«I've experienced a great loss in the last few months, in the summer my brother was hospitalized with a simple fever
We entered the hospital in the afternoon, ended up in a room at dawn, 5 o'clock in the morning (I wasn't there, but my sister was)
He was describing to me what was happening and I thought he was just exaggerating, the next day I was there, what my eyes saw I couldn't believe it.
There were cots everywhere, people being examined everywhere, zombie doctors, with tension, haste, hustle, hustle, back and forth so they could examine
We stayed in the hospital for several days, my brother's condition didn't improve, we couldn't find out what was going on, we pushed the doctors
When someone of mine is in danger I become a wild animal, to protect them, I will do anything, but in those days I was numb, what I saw I couldn't handle either, the ranches, what the doctors in there did, what they continue to do
We go to my brother's semester and these people are still living these situations, there are people who are still living and have people in hospitals
My brother was intubated in that first ward he came in
I don't care if politicians lie, I deal with it with what I vote for, what I buy, with my daily life, but when the lies are criminal then they must be punished - and they must be punished immediately.
I know that my brother breathed his last breath there, in a simple room. He was intubated there, where anyone could come in, touch him, look at him, spit on him if they wanted to.
They told us it was no use because he was in a coma, but you'd walk away and you'd hear his last words, which were “take me out of here.”
I want to take the hand of this gentleman who yesterday was saying that there are ICUs available, to take him to an on-call room, to experience the pain of the people who are alone there
I can still hear the guy across the street saying «Girl, water!», «Girl, water!» -and he didn't want water, of course, the nurses gave it to him. He just wanted to talk to someone.
What is happening in the hospitals is criminal, they are pandemic criminals and they must be punished, they have left a whole system alone, all the hygienists, struggling, living their hell.
I got out of there, I have my loss, but I also have my anger, when that anger becomes the anger of many, when the pain is over and we can stand on our feet, that's what they will pay for, that's what I have to say.
When the pain becomes anger, from everyone, they will leave, because they are pandemic criminals, that's what I have to say, I want to denounce that they are pandemic criminals and that what is happening in the hospitals is unprecedented.
I've never experienced people in the room at any time being intubated and staying there, my mother went into intensive care in 2016 and came out and is now alive, her child left in a simple room because she didn't have ICU
I don't know what would have happened in the ICU, I know that his death had no dignity, I know that even death has to have dignity and they have taken that away.
But they have not taken away my dignity, which I live, when my pain becomes anger and I stand on my feet, then I will gather others with the same anger, I want to denounce them, they are lying,
To take them one day, to come in, to see the pain of the people in the hospitals and the nurses, who are with eyes that I can't really describe.
I have lived in hell and I have come out of it, but around me life goes on, to see these people, to see if this thing called conscience will awaken in them, only this
I go to see my students and my forehead and my eyes are clear, I can do my job, how the fuck do they sleep at night? How do they sleep at night?;
I don't want to say anything else, just to those who have people in, to be calm, at least their people have a calmness next to them from them, as long as they can get in, as long as they let them stay, as long as they can stand it.
And that there are others who have gone through it
Outside the ICU - Deceased Victims' Relatives Group, this is what I'm going to make, you'll see it in the next few days, I'll find you to talk, to talk about what we're living, the hell we've been through, nothing else
I have words - and my pain will become anger and will take them and lift them up, for they are pandemic criminals.
And what do I want? I make my offerings, I try to do what I can every day in memory of my brother, yesterday I went to donate blood. It's not enough. I go to church and light my candle. And it's not enough, you know?»
