Corfu woman exasperated for being forced to go to Ioannina Hospital
Corfu Hospital
02 Dec 2022
/ 18:54
CORFU. A relative of a cancer patient describes what she and her family are going through.
A relative of a cancer patient expressed her despair and frustration, while the strike against the Health Ministry's bill was in progress at the hospital. Her family has become one of the thousands of Corfiots that are forced to go to the Ioannina Hospital. Her words are showing her pain for all that she is going through, while her relative is fighting for their life.
Mrs. Ioanna Zachou, who is unemployed, expressed her exasperation that her sick mother had to be operated on in a hospital in Ioannina because the public hospital on the island had neither the means nor the human resources. She talked about the examinations she had to undergo in private diagnostic centres - even the Covid tests that escorts are forced to pay for, as they are being carried out only on Wednesdays at the Corfu Hospital.
As the media covered the hospital employees' work stoppages, she asked for the obvious - that the Corfu Public Hospital provide the health services that patients need, without the latter having to dig deep into their pockets.
The 'whys' remain unanswered: "Mr. Plevris, have you asked us if we can afford to pay, if we are able to leave our jobs to accompany our relatives to Ioannina?
Why can't there be doctors here for all the positions? Why are the ones we have leaving? I am exasperated because this beautiful island that brings in so much money from tourism, has no health care, which is above everything else. We have a University in Corfu, shouldn't we also have a hospital for our great doctors to work in?
Mr. Plevris, if you have a mother and a father, show some interest for this island!"
Mrs. Ioanna Zachou, who is unemployed, expressed her exasperation that her sick mother had to be operated on in a hospital in Ioannina because the public hospital on the island had neither the means nor the human resources. She talked about the examinations she had to undergo in private diagnostic centres - even the Covid tests that escorts are forced to pay for, as they are being carried out only on Wednesdays at the Corfu Hospital.
As the media covered the hospital employees' work stoppages, she asked for the obvious - that the Corfu Public Hospital provide the health services that patients need, without the latter having to dig deep into their pockets.
The 'whys' remain unanswered: "Mr. Plevris, have you asked us if we can afford to pay, if we are able to leave our jobs to accompany our relatives to Ioannina?
Why can't there be doctors here for all the positions? Why are the ones we have leaving? I am exasperated because this beautiful island that brings in so much money from tourism, has no health care, which is above everything else. We have a University in Corfu, shouldn't we also have a hospital for our great doctors to work in?
Mr. Plevris, if you have a mother and a father, show some interest for this island!"
