(ANSA) - ATHENS - Doctors, nurses and ambulance staff from
Greece's state-run hospitals and health centers have started a
24-hour strike protesting understaffing and underfunding and
demanding back pay amid Greece's financial crisis as To Vima
online reports. The Greek union of hospital doctors (EINAP) said
that it fully supports the mobilization and actions of doctors
in response to unpaid overtime and the deterioration of working
conditions in the national healthcare system (ESY).
The federation of public hospital employees (POEDIN) has called
a 24-hour strike in response to the many problems in the
country's ailing healthcare system, which are attributed to
staff shortages and the significant budget cuts that have been
implemented in recent years. Doctors and hospital employees
intend to demonstrate outside the Ministry of Health. EINAP has
called the government to support public hospitals by increasing
funding and recruiting permanent staff members.
The country's largest public sector trade union ADEDY is
supporting the strike and has called for support of the
demonstration outside the Health Ministry at noon. As such,
ADEDY has called a work stoppage from noon onwards, so that
their members can join the doctors.(ANSA).
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