Unions representing state docs on Thursday refuted stories that lives had been put in danger throughout the 48-hour strike, complaining of a concerted assault by way of the media to besmirch them.
In parliament, Moisis Lambrou, the top of a docs’ commerce union, mentioned all critical affected person incidents occurring throughout the 48 hours had been handled.
“Anything that has been heard is inaccurate,” Lambrou insisted.
He referred for instance to a affected person who was admitted to a state hospital after struggling a coronary heart assault on Tuesday night.
“The incident was dealt with, and the affected person is in good well being,” mentioned the commerce union rep.
Sotiris Koumas, head of the Pasyki state docs union, alluded to the therapy of most cancers sufferers.
He mentioned that some scheduled chemotherapy periods needed to be postponed throughout the strike, however they had been carried out on Thursday; the remainder can be carried out on Friday.
For her half, Christina Yiannaki, the everlasting secretary on the well being ministry, said that 120 affected person incidents had been dealt with on the primary day of the strike – Tuesday – and one other 112 on the second day.
The operating of the state hospitals – working with skeleton employees – throughout the two days had been “profitable”, she asserted.
The dialogue came about on the Home well being committee, taking inventory of the docs’ strike and what led to it.
The commercial motion is the results of a dispute between the docs and the state well being companies organisation (Okypy) over the cost of performance-based bonuses. Docs insist they’re owed €4.5 million in monetary incentives for 2023. Okypy had provided them €4.1m in July, earlier than an unbiased evaluation discovered that they had been owed simply €2.5 million, infuriating the docs.
This evaluation bought quite a lot of consideration in parliament. In a bid to get some solutions, MPs summoned representatives of Deloitte, the corporate that had carried out the research.
However parliamentarians got entry solely to part of the Deloitte evaluation. It emerged {that a} part of the evaluation – which included working assumptions and disclaimers – was not proven to MPs.
The docs insist that these disclaimers ‘show’ that the €2.5 million was a instructed quantity, open to leeway.
Okypy had commissioned Deloitte to hold out the evaluation.
Underneath stress from MPs, a senior government of Okypy agreed to reveal the opposite components of the evaluation. Kypros Stavridis, government director of Okypy, promised handy over the paperwork by Friday.
In one other twist, Koumas of the Pasyki union alleged that months in the past he had spoken on the cellphone with a Deloitte officer, who on the time advised him the quantity in performance-based bonuses was €4.5 million.
Giorgos Pantelides, the Deloitte officer in query, neither confirmed nor denied this dialog had taken place.
