PM Mitsotakis on health: We want to radically reform the national health system

PM Mitsotakis on health: We want to radically reform the national health system

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The government will focus intensely on fighting the problems in the health sector and in reforming it, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday at a New Democracy party meeting on health. Cereport reports citing Athens-Macedonian

"We want to radically reform the National Health System," Mitsotakis said. "We have a comprehensive viewpoint about what has to happen in the health sector over the next four years, and we hope that citizens give us the opportunity to implement our plan," he added.

Among those plans a key component is evaluations of hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) throughout Greece, as well as hiring 10,000 nurses within the next four years, raising medical staff salaries, and improving working conditions, especially through an upgrade of emergency hospital services.

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