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Chania MP and Head of Transparency Sector P. Polakis made an intervention today at the special meeting of the Social Affairs Committee during which Minister Adonis Georgiadis informed the members about the “reforms” in the field of Health. P. Polakis strongly criticized the minister’s attempt to embellish the situation in the field of health by citing specific data. Main points of the intervention: • If the figures given by the minister for hospital pharmaceutical expenditure are valid, namely that it is €1,300,000, then this means that you have blown the bank and that we are reliving moments of 2007-2008. • We received 89,300 staff in the National Health System and delivered 100,490, that is, we achieved a net increase of 11,000 employees in the system and this within memoranda, when ND from 2019 to 2024, outside of memoranda and with increased needs due to the pandemic, as the minister told us, achieved an increase of 7,000 in staff. The total number of medical staff that we delivered to you was 24,500 and currently it is 20 to 21 thousand. This is the definition of failure. • The big problem for the system is the flight of the new generation abroad. Extending the term of office for those over 67 is not a solution, it is a failure. If our system is not attractive to young people, then they will not stay to work here. The only way for them to stay here is not to make them operate in the afternoon to make a few francs, it is to double their salaries. • Of the 520 million euros of the Recovery Fund given to hospitals, 450 million are for thermal facades and changing windows instead of going to upgrading equipment. From the entire Recovery Fund that will bring 1 billion euros to the Health sector, with various recent reshuffles, 50 million euros were allocated for the purchase of equipment, at a time when within the memoranda alone for the Douro program for the Attica region, we purchased new equipment worth 60 million euros. This is a shame.