NHS on verge of collapse, hospital doctors demand immediate emergency measures

The situation at public hospitals (the only one that treat COVID-19 patients), with rough shifts of even 36 hours for exhausted hospital doctors and patients being treated on cots in corridors, has raised a series of issues that must be urgently addressed in order to avert a collapse of Greece's National Health System (NHS).

The signs of collapse are already evident and one can predict how the situation will evolve, as experts project that the huge pressures on the system will continue in December.

Doctors, professors, and researchers have issued a barrage of warnings in television and newspaper interviews to convey the desperate situation at hospitals and to urge people to be vaccinated and religiously abide by public health restrictions.

University of Thessaloniki Professor of Environmental Mechanics Dimosthenis Sarigiannis told SKAI television that the number of infections confirmed daily (8,600 yesterday) will continue to rise alarmingly for the next 7-8 days, and that the spike in cases will continue in December.

Projection of up to120 deaths daily, 800 intubations by Christmas

"The weekly rolling average of infections was 6,600, and by the beginning of December it will rise to about 9,400. That means we will on one day have over 10,000 infections, with a corresponding increase of intubations and, unfortunately, a rapid rise in the number of deaths," said Sarigiannis.

He also projected that by mid-December there may be over 800 intubated patients and a peak of 120 deaths in a day by Christmas.

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