Five public hospitals in greater Athens are due to be restructured and will provide the bulk of more than 1,600 healthcare staff that will be moved into the civil service labor mobility scheme, according to a report published earlier on this week by Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis.
The hospitals to be restructured in the centre of Athens are Patission Hospital, which will be passed on to the country’s main healthcare provider, EOPYY and Polykliniki Athinon which will provide care for patients suffering from chronic illnesses. Spiliopouleio-Aghia Eleni Hospital in Glyfada, southern Athens, will serve as a hospice and will also have a radiation therapy department, Amalia Fleming in the northern suburb of Maroussi will be turned into a physical rehabilitation center with several outpatient clinics and Aghia Varvara hospital in western Athens will be turned into an all-day general health center.
Staff at the Thoracic Disease and Disorders Research Institute will be transferred to Aghios Savvas and Sotiria, both major hospitals in the Greek capital.
In Thessaloniki, the plan is expected to result mostly in transfers as staff numbers are boosted at cash-strapped facilities such as the Ippocrateio and AHEPA hospitals.
In total, 1,618 workers from hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki will be put into the labor mobility scheme, along with 210 doctors from the IKA Social Security Foundation. Their names are due to be published next week and the transfers completed by mid-September.
