Cases of burnout of doctors and nurses scourge in public hospitals in Greece and the personnel sees no other way out of this dangerous situation for them and for the patients other through the path to Justice.
Doctors and nurses are on the edge, since the hours are exhausting for almost all public hospital staff.
Now many hospital doctors they are looking to the Greek Justice system after a colleague of them, a doctor in a public hospital in Peloponnese, resigned and went to court for work-related exhaustion (burnout) within the public health system and won a compensation of 20,000 euros.
According to information of daily ethnos.gr after this judicial development, many doctors who work exhausting hours and very long on call duties due to under-staffing in ESY are considering following the same path.
Besides, doctors and nurses are on the verge of burnout, since burnout dominates almost all staff in public hospitals.
This is a frequent phenomenon that affects the medical sector, since doctors are forced to overwork due to the huge shortages that exist in the system.
It is characteristic that medical staff is forced to perform additional on-call shifts to meet the needs in public hospitals, something that is also criticized by Europe, since the permitted weekly working hours are far exceeded.
24-hour shifts and exhausting rhythms????
The Federation of Hospital Doctors (OENGE) has repeatedly denounced the overwork of doctors and the exhausting working hours with 24-hour shifts. However, to date, the Ministry of Health does not seem to have provided a solution, since due to the shortages, the gaps cannot be filled.
In fact, many times “orders” are issued, with the result that doctors are forced to move against their will, to other hospitals and other areas. It is no coincidence that in recent months, doctors have been collapsing in public health units due to over-working.
According to a recent pan-European report REST-JD by the European Junior Doctors Association, in which over 6,000 doctors from 26 countries participated, Greek doctors work much longer than their colleagues in Europe.
The data from the same survey show that young doctors in Greece work an average of 72 hours a week.
This time is 24 hours longer than the legal limit of 48 hours, and 15 hours more than the European average.
