A plan by the government to consolidate hospitals into health centers and to reduce health care staff by 1,618 people is leading to the transfer of patients from eight hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki, a process that will last from Aug. 21-Sept. 15.
Coordinators from the National Center for Health Care Enterprises (EKEPY) are keeping track of the patients being evacuated from hospitals whose functions are changing and where there’s no enough people to care for them.
The hospitals affected are the General Hospital of Athens Polykliniki, Amalia Fleming, Patision General Hospital, Agia Varvara and Spiliopoulio in Athens and the Hospital of Infectious Diseases, the Special Hospital of Venereal and Skin Diseases as well as the Panagia Hospital in Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia Region.
People who had appointments at the hospitals will be seen only until Aug 28. The operational program that goes under the code name Dimokides is coordinated by the National Center for Health Care Enterprises (EKEPY) under the supervision of its President Panos Efstathiou.
“This is an important operational that EKEPY is expected is expected to carry out throughout the country, except from those operations concerning influenza pandemics,” Efstathiou stressed
Also, beginning on Aug. 22, all hospitals in Attica will be on duty on a 24-hour basis every three working days and not in three time periods as it has been.
During this evacuation period, when the mobility and the change of use of the hospitals will be completed, military hospitals will carry out the on-calls of the ESY, the national health care system.
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