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Rise in user fees in Greece could reduce access to healthcare, charity warns

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d200 (Published 11 January 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:d200

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Re: Rise in user fees in Greece could reduce access to healthcare, charity warns

Dear Editors,

The Minister of Health himself posted some humiliating photos of public hospital buildings in Greece, on his twitter account, saying he was outraged.

References

https://twitter.com/AdonisGeorgiadi/status/362429782849368066/photo/1
https://twitter.com/AdonisGeorgiadi/status/362429865967878144/photo/1
https://twitter.com/AdonisGeorgiadi/status/362429955226869760/photo/1

Competing interests: Dr Stavros Saripanidis is a diligent taxpayer who has been financing the Greek NHS for years. He is outraged to see such extreme and humiliating shortages. Public managers in Greek public Hospitals must answer where all those billions of State funds went.

31 July 2013
Stavros Saripanidis
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Private Surgery
Thessaloniki, Greece