Hospital staff to hold protest on Wednesday over new hospital payments scheme

14:39 9/9/2014 - Πηγή: E-Typos
A draft law setting up a new hospital payments agency, the Hospital Payment Systems Company SA, triggered a storm of protest from doctors and staff in hospitals, whose unions announced protest actions.

The hospital doctors' union federation OENGE announced a work stoppage starting at noon on Wednesday in protest against the measure and is organising a protest rally outside Parliament at 12:30 on that day with the Athens-Piraeus Hospital Doctors Union (EINAP) and the hospital staff union federation POEDIN.

OENGE said that the creation of the new company marked the state's complete withdrawal from funding the public health system and dismissed the modifications made by the health minister as immaterial, finding that "they do not change the essence of the drastic repercussions for patients, hospitals and doctors."
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