Mantadakis, expresses doubt about the intention to operate the Children's ICU
Elpidophoros Mantadakis, the director of the University Pediatric Clinic of the Hospital and professor of Pediatrics at the IPH, expressed his doubts about the State's intentions to create a Children's Intensive Care Unit at the PGN Alexandroupoli, speaking to ERT Orestiada.
On the occasion of the recent decision of the Board of the Hospital approving its establishment as well as the passing of its operating regulations, the concern remains as everything depends on the decision of the central administration to hire a large number of nursing staff mainly, in order to be able to open
As it was clarified for the operation of a Children's ICU with a capacity of 6 beds, 18 nurses and 5-6 specialist doctors are needed, which increases the cost, as 25 appointments from the beginning, require the practical support of the State for such an undertaking.
Unfortunately, as he pointed out, "the shortage of nursing staff at the PGNA is terrifying, but so are the children's intensivists in Greece, since the NHS has not been attractive to them for years", giving the example of the ICU of the Larissa Hospital where the scientific manager came from Hippocrates Thessaloniki.
Mr. Mantadakis did not fail to respond to what is being said about the small number of incidents that the Unit will have, stressing that it aims to serve all of AM-Th as well as the islands of the NE Aegean where airlifts take place.
"If you include the population of the children of this entire region, they exceed the population of Thessaly, where the State agreed to build an ICU. There cannot be two meters and two stations in this country," he concluded with emphasis.
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