Mitsotakis visit to “Metaxa” hospital | Politics: News, News and Current Affairs – 2024-03-17 17:02:02

The Metaxa hospital the prime minister visited Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday (15/3).

The purpose of the visit is to see her up close progress of the renovation works at the hospital.

This is a project financed by the Recovery and Resilience Fund with 4,275,602.52 euros and concerns the modernization of nursing units of the hospitals “Tzanio”, “Metaxa”, “Attikon” and the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica,

During the visit the Prime Minister, who was accompanied by the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis and the Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Nikos Papathanasisstated:

“Step by step we are building the new National Health System, which we have envisioned and which all Greek women and men deserve. Here today, in this iconic cancer hospital, we see a small aspect of a very large construction project, which spans the entire territory. Eighty hospitals, 156 health centers, with a budget exceeding 400 million euros and financing from the Recovery Fund, are changing the face of the infrastructure of primary, secondary and tertiary health care in our country.

I want to repeat that the project that you see here developing, like many other similar projects, is financed by the Recovery Fund, the 36 billion euros that our government secured after Covid to support the development of the Greek economy, but and the upgrading of critical social infrastructures.

And I say this because we are three months before the European elections and obviously the main issue in this upcoming ballot box is who will be that political force that will be able to claim for the benefit of the Greek citizens what they deserve from the European Union.

I want to emphasize that the Recovery Fund is only one source of funding for the important interventions we are making in health. There are other interventions financed by the NSRF 2021-2027, such as, for example, the energy upgrade of this hospital.

But I also want to emphasize that our interventions are not limited to upgrading infrastructure. We place great emphasis on new digital health services, on important recruitments and on strengthening the NHS with permanent staff.

But also in preventive examinations, which are also financed by the Recovery Fund, a very ambitious program, the “Doxiadis” Program, which will aim to detect diseases long before patients need to be hospitalized in hospitals such as “Metaxa” . Because we know very well that especially in cancer early diagnosis is what ultimately saves lives and that is why we serve this coherent policy with great consistency.

I will repeat, finally, one more time, that upgrading the National Health System and supporting health as a whole in our country was one of the main pre-election commitments of our government. With great systematicity and despite the difficulties we may encounter, we implement this commitment.

We rely on all the staff of the National Health System. I want once again – I do it every time I visit any health facility – to thank them, each and every one of them, for all the support they put in during the difficult time of Covid. We must not forget these. And I think that both of them know that, within the framework of the budgetary possibilities, this government will continue to support our doctors, our nurses, our staff, as for example we have already done by increasing the allowances we give for on duty”.