From August 5, the Health Center will operate only in the morning
Due to the serious lack of personnel in the Antissa Health Center, which resulted in the impossibility of its activities, the Workers’ Trade Union appealed to the Scientific Director of the KY Antissa Health Center and POEDIN, V. Ege, with the latter to the Minister of Health and 2 Governors.his Take initiatives to prevent the cancellation of the 24-hour operation of the Health District Health Center.
According to them, since August 5, the Scientific Officer of the Antissa Health Center is unable to establish a safe vigilance program for the Health Center due to severe staff shortages, and therefore the Health Center will operate only in the morning hours.
Since it is located in a remote area 70 kilometers from the city and serves thousands of residents of West Lesbos, which swells in the summer due to the tourist resorts in the area, all necessary initiatives must be taken to avoid interruption. Pointing to the 24-hour operation of the Health Center, POEDIN added: “We have reached this point because in many cases the calls are met by a doctor (pathologist or general) who is not a nurse, because there are only two nurses in the Health Center. In general medicine sisters.”
“Without a single doctor without medical support, the Health Center cannot be on duty safely,” he said.
The Scientific Director of the Antissa Health Center, in turn, in his letter to the commander of the 2nd Piraeus and Aegean Health Center, states that the two serving nurses work a total of 42 shifts, and they require a total of 15 days. normal leave for the month of August. This means that they will cover 27 of the 93 shifts in total, 21 of which will be in the morning. Almost all shifts with on-call coverage will remain without a nurse.
At the same time, the doctors’ call-up program is drawn up with flaws, despite the participation of doctors from KY. Beauty. A general practitioner or pathologist and an active duty field physician are almost always on daily duty without a nurse. At weekends and holidays, a general practitioner or pathologist and two field service doctors are on duty without a nurse. Weekdays
On call, the Field Service Physician accompanies patients to the Hospital, leaving the qualified Physician alone for approximately 4 hours to deal with emergencies that come without a nurse.
In the end, he notes that on-call doctors are required to work in dangerous working conditions, and at the same time, the health and lives of patients are at risk. There is no safe call without a nurse, and even more so, one-on-one with an emergency physician.
With this data, along with the increase in the population of the region, KY emphasizes that it is not possible to adequately operate it 24 hours a day, every day of every month due to the summer season.
What is the Northern Aegean Health Center Workers’ Union complaining about?
The Workers’ Union talks about the lack of staff at the “Antissa” Health Center, which has been weakening year by year in recent years.
As he mentioned, while many of the in-demand positions at other Health Centers are filled by Support Staff, Antissa Health Center has a new recruitment starting in 2019!
Additionally, as he noted, the size of the movement of personnel from Kallonis KY to Antissa KY in August poses additional challenges. The schedule of KY Kallonis is disrupted and in addition the family planning of employees.
At the same time, “we receive complaints from medical workers who want to move to Antissa hospital about the rejection of their applications. Currently, there are three nurses who want to move,” says the Union, requesting that Antissa Hospital be equipped with medical and medical support staff immediately, as in other hospitals on the island, as well as speeding up all measures. Order to advertise vacancies for improvement and smooth provision of Primary Health Care in the area of responsibility of KY.