Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Stefanos Kasselakis attacked the government late on Monday over its policy on health, proclaiming that "profits must stay out of the National Health System" after visiting a hospital in the western Greek city of Preveza.
He noted that this was a "neoliberal policy mockery" in a country where 40% of spending on health comes from the pockets of private citizens, over and above what they have already paid in taxes. Pointing out that hospitals were understaffed by personnel contending with low wages and a precarious environment, he stressed that the government must finally attend to the needs of Greek citizen and secure quality healthcare as a right from the cradle to the grave.
Kasselakis said that all forms of profit-making, whether afternoon surgeries or private-public partnerships, must be kept out of the public health system and called for investments to provide every Greek with healthcare.
"It cannot be that human life - whether this concerns hospitals, or a woman in front of a police station or the railroad - to be just another number and that we only hear of this when someone is a relative of an MP," he concluded, promising a "new political model, grounded in society."
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