Corfu Union of Family Doctors’ statement regarding transfer of doctors
family doctors
08 Jun 2022
/ 21:26
CORFU. Statement by the Corfu Union of Family Doctors regarding the transfer of doctors from villages to the General Hospital Emergency Department.
The Corfu Union of Family Doctors made the following statement regarding the transfer of doctors to the General Hospital Emergency Department, which has resulted in villages of the island being left without doctors:
It has been 6 months since the transfer system was changed, which resulted in family doctors (GPs) being transferred from the villages they were at to the hospital's emergency department.
It has been 6 months of promises that there will be recruitments to the hospital's emergency department, which never happened. Instead, the department is even more understaffed, since the Director is also going to the surgical clinic, which is left with only 3 doctors (2 years ago there were 7).
For the past 6 months some villages are trying to find out where the family doctor appointed to them is.
For the past 6 months we have all been wondering what the selection criteria are going to be for the next General Practitioner that will be transferred (even though they do not want to).
For the past 6 months, because of these transfers, staff at some health centres are now working on call up to 9 times a month.
Following the announcements and the new laws on primary health care and family doctors, we demand:
- That the government end the joke situation and stop the transfers of doctors, which started for no reason.
- That the recruitment in the emergency department continue, which started in 2018 but stopped, without even re-advertising the reserved positions that existed.
- That the law on the recruitment of staff for the emergency department be finally applied until the latter is permanently staffed and that the selection of general practitioners who will move around for months, losing all contact with their specialty and the population of the clinic to which they were appointed, be stopped.
It has been 6 months since the transfer system was changed, which resulted in family doctors (GPs) being transferred from the villages they were at to the hospital's emergency department.
It has been 6 months of promises that there will be recruitments to the hospital's emergency department, which never happened. Instead, the department is even more understaffed, since the Director is also going to the surgical clinic, which is left with only 3 doctors (2 years ago there were 7).
For the past 6 months some villages are trying to find out where the family doctor appointed to them is.
For the past 6 months we have all been wondering what the selection criteria are going to be for the next General Practitioner that will be transferred (even though they do not want to).
For the past 6 months, because of these transfers, staff at some health centres are now working on call up to 9 times a month.
Following the announcements and the new laws on primary health care and family doctors, we demand:
- That the government end the joke situation and stop the transfers of doctors, which started for no reason.
- That the recruitment in the emergency department continue, which started in 2018 but stopped, without even re-advertising the reserved positions that existed.
- That the law on the recruitment of staff for the emergency department be finally applied until the latter is permanently staffed and that the selection of general practitioners who will move around for months, losing all contact with their specialty and the population of the clinic to which they were appointed, be stopped.
