Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis saw himself forced to cancel his visit to the General Hospital of Drama, northern Greece, on Thursday, after clashes broke out between protesters and police.
“I’m not going to be threatened with being shot even though I’ve met all their demands,” the minister posted later on social media.
He claimed, that protesters “went so far to tear the shirt of the police deputy director.
He wrote further that he has scheduled his visit some tome ago that blamed the hospital unionists of communist KKE for the incidents.
The president of the workers at the Drama hospital “close to the KKE started a public struggle to get me there upon my arrival” and allowed comments on his social media post “even to the point of getting me shot” Georgiadis complained.
Lashing out that the unionist, the Health Minister claimed that the workers’ president managed to gather the support of opposition parties like the local Syriza, Greek Solution, Niki, PASOK etc.
The minister stressed that he had already fulfilled the workers’ demand on personnel and other issues.
The problem with the Greek Health Minister is/was not in the general hospital of Drama only. When- and wherever he visits a public hospital he is met with angry workers protesting the decline of the public health care system, the shortage of doctors and nurses and the de-gradating tone he uses to address the personnel.
So far, and despite being aware of a tense atmosphere, the minister had indeed paid the hospitals visit. This time in Drama, things are apparently tougher than usual.
*pictures: proinostypos.gr
