The plan for restarting the National Health System and restructuring the debt associated with the pandemic will be presented next week in a model developed by SYRIZA.
The plan for a sustainable restart of the National Health System will be presented by Alexis Tsipras, leader of the main opposition party SYRIZA, next week, in the program standards for the new NHS (Εθνικό Σύστημα Υγείας). It will include both measures to restructure private debt arising from the pandemic and liquidity instruments to meet the urgent needs of businesses and their employees.
The new NHA is a structured program, calculated at a cost, taking into account each individual issue, “- said the President of SYRIZA.
Alexis Tsipras stressed: “The position of the state on the world map of the 21st century is determined by the position of public health in it. Human life is the responsibility of a modern state. The mission of a modern state is a public health system that offers high-quality and effective services, respects people, and ensures equal access for all citizens. Thus, the new NHA is a serious challenge for the progressive people of the country. This is a big problem for progressive management. These are our values in practice. “
The SYRIZA plan has three pillars:
Measures to pay off private debt in connection with the pandemic – both to the state and to banks.
Considering that from the beginning of the pandemic to the end of 2020, there was a new overdue debt to the state and insurance funds in the amount of 7 billion euros, the plan includes writing off part of the main debt, 40% -60%. Depending on the cases, for certain categories of debt and the repayment of the remaining debt, up to 120 payments, with a low or zero interest rate. Measures to increase the liquidity of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The second component includes a number of important activities, such as converting the entire payable advance into irrevocable, subsidizing insurance premiums to keep jobs for a certain period of time, etc. According to the information, a proposal for government intervention will be presented to resolve the issue of checks which is a hoax for the entire Greek economy. Permanent holistic structure for private debt management.
Cancellation of the new bankruptcy law and a new framework with the restoration of the protection of the primary residence.
The plan provides for:
Immediate recruitment of 5,500 permanent medical workers who left the system last year (in fact, in a pandemic!) Without replacement. Hiring an additional 10,000 permanent health workers for a period of three years. Constant redeployment of all medical personnel to the NHS to fight the pandemic on the front lines. Automatic announcement of all vacancies in the NHS. Special incentives to attract NHS doctors to remote and insular areas. Reform of the salaries of medical staff so that the starting salary for a doctor is 2,000 euros. Proportional increase in the salary of non-medical personnel of medical institutions. Putting all workers in insurance as “heavy and unhealthy”.
The second point concerns the strengthening of primary and secondary health care. With regard to primary health care, the following is provided:
Triple the structures of local health departments. The goal is to reach 380 out of 127 operating throughout the country. Strengthening the institution of a family doctor throughout the territory and for every family, for all citizens. Operation on the municipality of multipurpose health centers. Integrated home care network.
There is also a provision for mobile health groups, which mainly target residents of remote areas and school health, with the creation of school health groups with specialized child psychologists and nurses in schools throughout the country.
In secondary health care, interventions include:
Increase of beds in intensive care units at the level of the European average. Functional adequacy of hospitals in the region to avoid massive movement of patients to central hospitals. Development of new hospital structures (oncology, cardiac surgery, pediatrics) with a criterion of morbidity and the absence of similar departments in large geographic regions. Quick completion of EKAB with a nationwide patient transportation network by land, air and water.
The third key point of the reform is pharmaceutical policy. With guaranteed access for all patients to modern medicines, with the support of domestic research, with a decisive reduction in participation in the treatment of chronic patients.
Presentation
SYRIZA’s financial advisors emphasized that the plan to be presented is the first step in SYRIZA’s overall planning for the recovery of the Greek economy. This is inextricably linked to the party’s proposal to use the resources of the Recovery Fund and European resources in general, which reflects, in the medium term, SYRIZA’s plan to transform the production model towards an environmentally and socially sustainable, equitable direction.
The presentation of the complex proposal will be attended by the heads of finance and economics Efi Ahtsioglu and Alexis Haritsis, representatives of industrial structures (Kon. Michalos, G. Hatziteodosiu and G. Kavvatas) and Luka Katseli, who created the legal framework for protecting the first place of residence. And as the official opposition continues to search for scientists-technocrats and new faces to increase the authority of the party, the event will be attended by Professor, Head of the Department of International Banking Law and Finance at Emilios University of Edinburgh and Democritus University Dimitris Avgitidis.
During the presentation, data will be displayed reflecting the current situation in the Greek economy. According to party sources, according to Eurostat, workers in Greece experienced the third largest decline in income in Europe in 2020, while all businesses and economic activities recorded a loss of 41.6 billion euros in the same year. They also emphasize that mid-sized companies face the threat of a lockout, as 23% of respondents in the GSEVEE survey said they were very likely to close. The numbers are skyrocketing in sectors with special participation in employment, such as catering, where the percentage is 41.7%, and in trade – 34%.
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