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New intervention by the former Minister of Health, George Pamporidis, regarding what was reported before the Parliament's Audit Committee on GenSY.
Pampridis, in a new statement, wanted to comment on what is happening these days and at the same time send his own messages.
"I watch with disappointment the new attempt of the known "saviors of society" to compete for who will "save" the GESY once again. I also see with great sadness, institutions that were appointed by the state as guardians and protectors of this great conquest of the People, focusing on the "tree" and ostentatiously ignoring the "forest"," he says.
Adding that "GESY is not numbers and cold accounting operations of doubtful validity. GESY is the biggest social benefit to the Cypriot citizen. It is the refuge of every citizen who suffers and is tormented by the chronological failure of the State to offer free quality health services, something that every European citizen has been enjoying for years. The GHS is the expression of social solidarity in a State where individualism is becoming a scourge against the many and the weakest."
"The duty of all State institutions is to have as the starting point of all their actions, the concern and care for the strengthening of the GHS and not to seek reasons and excuses to undermine it. The problems are many but were expected by all of us in its early years. But they cannot be instrumentalized by anyone, especially the institutions, in order to discredit first and then cancel the biggest reform of the last decades. There is no room for gimmicks and obsessive-compulsive syndromes in those who exercise public power. That is why we do not put 'wolves' to guard the 'sheep'. The only compass for any authority must be the public interest. And that means the interest of Society and the People, not the interest of the few and the chosen few. The total health expenditure in our country remains one of the lowest in the European Union and this should not be concealed by those responsible," he argued.
In conclusion, Pamporidis said that "the responsibility for protecting and defending the YESY belongs to all of us and to each of us individually and we must all remain vigilant. Those who, under the pretext of an accounting construction, attempt to discredit and dismantle the GESY, ostensibly because they "hurt and care", would do well to realize that they will find against them the entire society and the Social Alliance that we built during the stone years when the GESY was fought fiercely. GESY was imposed by the people and is a popular conquest. No one can turn back history."
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