Reversal of Paid Surgery at the University Hospital of Ioannina – Employees canceled afternoon surgery and morning surgery was held free of charge – Kanalaki News

The announcement by the president of the PANI Employees Association, Dimitris Vrysalis, mentions the cancellation of an afternoon surgery for pancreatic cancer at the University General Hospital of Ioannina.

The surgery was originally scheduled to be a paid surgery, but after an intervention, it was arranged to take place on the same day as an unpaid morning surgery.

The announcement expresses the Association’s determination to oppose the policy that turns hospitals into price-list businesses and emphasizes the need for continued vigilance and struggle.

His full announcement:

“Afternoon paid pancreatic Ca surgery canceled and same day breakfast comes in, emergency, no pay! For Friday 26/4, an afternoon paid surgery was planned at PAGNI, pancreatic cancer.

Our faction in the PGNI, ASY PGNI released a notice of complaint from Friday 19/4 and called on everyone: commander, director of surgery, the deputy minister of the ND Mrs. Kefala who had come to visit “the village” at the PGNI to take a stand and transfer the surgery without payment in the morning hours, as an emergency.

The announcement was released to media and PGNI and caused a sensation, great acceptance by colleagues. EINI, at the initiative of DIPAK, yesterday sent a corresponding request to the commander of the PGNI, in which he requested that the surgery be entered as an emergency in the morning hours.

Afternoon Paid Pancreatic Ca Surgery CANCELED!!! and will enter the morning schedule, as it should. This was confirmed a little while ago by the commander of PGNI, Mr. Derdemezis, to the president of EINI, Babis Pappa, after a personal intervention he made.

This is the way! We will not leave them in the lurch! We will do everything in our power to expose all the ugliness that their policy produces. We all need to keep our ears open for relevant information in each hospital. We will block the afternoon surgeries in practice!!!

They were not instituted to reduce the lists. They were instituted to make hospitals price-list businesses of life and human suffering. They were instituted to “become a normal European country”, as stated by the Deputy Minister of Health Vartzopoulos!!!

If it weren’t for our intervention the afternoon paid cancer surgery would normally take place on Friday. We communicate the news, it’s a competitive victory! We are on the lookout for everything!!!”