PRESS RELEASE
The data speaks for itself: Enough is
enough!
In a few days the Metropolitan Community
Clinic at Helliniko will complete its second year of operation. Two years of
non-stop care, solidarity and struggle for what should exist without
exceptions: Dignity, health, life.
In this second year the situation became
tragic for those without any insurance, the long-term unemployed and those with
no means of subsistence, who are excluded from public healthcare.
Last year's data are shocking:
·
Visits to the Metropolitan
Community Clinic for primary health care (doctor visits, medicinal coverage)
and provision of baby food are already more than 17.500.
·
Besides these visits, 2.331
laboratory tests were made, by collaborating laboratories that offer them for
free to people that absolutely need them, as follows: 749 imaging tests, 193
cardiological tests, 503 ophtalmological, 886 blood and microbiological tests.
·
The Metropolitan Community
Clinic arranged 102 surgical procedures, 78 in Public Hospitals and 24 in
private ones. 21 of them were urgent - 15 of them were cardiac procedures and
heart surgeries, 1 aortic aneurysm, 1 was cancer-related and 4 were
childbirths.
Still, today, 50 patients with serious
medical problems, await secondary treatment. 10 of them are in life-threatening
conditions:
1 with abdominal aortic aneurysm
8 cardiac surgery cases
1 possible cancer
What will happen to these patients, that
are verifiably in no position to pay? Will we let them die as well, Minister?
Our hospitals with the closed budget you have imposed, can not cover these
patients' health expenditures. When you show this criminal negligence regarding
the uninsured patients, how do you expect us to believe that you will
demonstrate the sensitivity required in the restructuring of primary health
care?
We therefore call on the state in order not
to grieve more victims, like the 36 year old cancer patient that died, leaving
two young children behind.
Community Clinics are doing the best they
can, but they can not replace secondary health care -the state has to assume
its responsibilities at last.
PATIENTS ARE NOT ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS, THEY
ARE HUMAN BEINGS!
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CLINIC AT HELLENIKO
Working Hours
(MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 - 20:00) and (SATURDAY 10:00 - 14:00)
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: +30 210 9631950
ADDRESS: Inside the old American Military Base, 200m away from the Traffic Police of the Municipality of Helleniko, next to the Cultural Center of Helleniko
Post code TK16777, Elliniko, Attiki, Greece
Blog http://mkie-foreign.blogspot.gr/ Email mkiellinikou@gmail.com
Working Hours
(MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 - 20:00) and (SATURDAY 10:00 - 14:00)
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: +30 210 9631950
ADDRESS: Inside the old American Military Base, 200m away from the Traffic Police of the Municipality of Helleniko, next to the Cultural Center of Helleniko
Post code TK16777, Elliniko, Attiki, Greece
Blog http://mkie-foreign.blogspot.gr/ Email mkiellinikou@gmail.com
