Helliniko 3 March 2013
Press
Release
The volunteers of The Metropolitan Community Clinic at Helliniko are
continuing their daily struggle to offer support to those neglected by our
national system of health and welfare.
They are witness, every single day, to the tragic situations that so
many of our fellow citizens find themselves in after five years of financial
crisis. Despite the fact that they are
not to blame, many are suddenly jobless and uninsured. Having been mindlessly thrown to the dogs, the
jobless, the uninsured, and now it seems even the insured will have to face the
blunders of the so-called public health service. Here is a sample of what has been in the
press lately:
1)
Under
EOPPY (the major public health care provider) subsidies for childbirth have
been abolished, and those for physiotherapy and eye-glasses have been reduced
as well as needed staff.
2)
There are
tragic shortages of basic medications, a fact carefully “ignored” by
officialdom, but well known to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
3)
Prison
sentences and fines to those who owe more than 5,000 euro to the public
coffers.
One wonders if anyone of
those who helped create this situation is aware of the megaton fiscal bomb
situated in our society. A society that
includes patients without medication and care, cancer sufferers without therapy
and parents who have trouble feeding their children. A society where many citizens, who have
worked for years, now find themselves shut out of access to public hospitals
when the need arises.
What is the answer for
those who don’t have access to basic public health, medicine, water, power and
other basic utilities; send them all to jail?
We trust and believe
that common sense will prevail. In the
meantime, we will continue to strive daily for the right of all to have access to the public health
system, without reservation No one
has the right to usurp a sacred right to life!
