In his statements to a television station, the press spokesman of SYRIZA, Nassos Iliopoulos, stressed that the government has transformed the vaccine for the new coronavirus, as an alibi for not taking measures to strengthen the public health system and for failing to address dispersion in public transport and workplaces.
Speaking to SKAI about the enormous pressure that the National Health System has been under in recent days, he stressed that the government «must at last proceed to the substantial the ranking of private sector clinics. Must the Greece to follow the example of other countries such as Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, where the private sector is seriously involved in the response to the pandemic, which is not the case here so far.».
He stressed that «some of the private sector units currently in use are not suitable», citing as an example «Leto“ which is a unit without a pathology and pulmonology clinic”. »At the moment, doctors are being transferred from public hospitals to Leto, so we are not talking here about a real requisition of the private sector,« he added.
He added that «the government has wasted the valuable time gained by society from the first wave without organising the effective involvement of primary care in the pandemic». «According to the Hellenic Respiratory Society, if primary care were functioning seriously, 8 out of 10 cases of coronavirus would not reach the hospital,» said Nassos Iliopoulos.
«The government should also move to prescribe the tests», he stressed, saying that «it is not possible for a worker of 600 euros to be forced to pay out of pocket to do the test and even if he has to go into quarantine, to work after a month of unpaid overtime, as he has Legislation the government». «This acts as a disincentive to check if he has the virus,» he said.
Responding to the government's criticism that SYRIZA is organizing mobilizations, Nassos Iliopoulos noted that «what mobilises the citizens is the policy of the Southwest itself». «It is not possible, in the midst of a pandemic and with all the deficiencies observed in distance education, for the government of the Southwest to pass a law that throws 24,000 students out of university and expect that there will be no social reactions,» he said.
«There can't be no social reactions after the incident police brutality in Nea Smyrni, when the government at first tries to distort the facts and then when government deputy airs the facts and convictions of the citizen who was beaten», he underlined.
«It is of course hypocritical on the part of the Southwest, to say that the mobilizations are responsible for the rise of the pandemic», pointed out Nassos Iliopoulos, saying that «if we add up all the gatherings that have taken place recently, there is not a single day in the suffocatingly crowded every day public transport».
Finally, on the occasion of his statements Adonis Georgiadis for allegedly deliberate Dispersion of the virus from the left, Nassos Iliopoulos stressed that «this rhetoric cultivates a civil war climate that takes us back decades». «Although these days Mr Georgiades has other issues to which he must give convincing answers», he noted, «such as the baptisms he attended in the midst of the lockdown».
The SYRIZA spokesman concluded by saying: «This incident comes to added to others that show that the government itself fails to cultivate a spirit of compliance, such as the mockery that took place on Ash Wednesday at the offices of the EODY.».
