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Strike in the public hospitals

24hr strike in the entire health sector was carried out on the 20th of May by the workers in the public hospitals and health structures.

 

The rally in Athens was held outside the Health Ministry, where the forces of the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) in the public sector, students in the health faculties, as well as many workers from various sectors and pensioners.

 

In her speech, Olga Siantou, the vice-president of POEDHN (federation of workers in the public hospitals) and member of the Health-Welfare Secretariat of PAME, noted amongst other things:

 

“We are on strike and we demonstrate today because state-funding of health-welfare has stopped, because the intensification of labour is crushing the workers, because there is a shortage of thousands of workers in hundreds of specialties.

 

We are on strike today because our salaries are wretchedly low and despite this they owe us wages. Because our patients pay taxes their whole lives ad in their moment of need the state tells them to pay again for medical exams, nursing, treatment and medicines.

 

We are on strike because the government in the four months of its rule has taken the available funds from the public organizations and social-security funds.

 

The solution is to organize and struggle! The solution is to be found in the joint struggle of the health workers, workers of other sectors, pensioners, unemployed, self-employed.”

 

Giorgos Lamproulis, MP of the KKE and doctor, conveyed the party’s support with a short message of greetings. He referred to the need to reinforce the demands and struggle and at the same time to highlight the causes of the current situation. These causes are related to the political line of the EU and the governments that is transforming health into a commodity and hospitals into businesses.

 

After the rally, the demonstrators marched to the Parliament.