No response for release of funds
Public hospitals, in addition to continuing to operate under-staffed due to the freezing of recruitments, now face the risk of running out of medical and other consumables, at a time when health development projects are not being promoted either, due to a lack of money. .
Of course, for some time now, as reported by "F", the Ministry of Health has been on hold, waiting for approvals from the Ministry of Finance, which, however, does not respond either positively or negatively to the various requests. So, despite the fact that some of the bids should have been announced two months ago, the messages are not at all optimistic.
Finally, the Health sector has been waiting for six months for its exclusion from the freezing of recruitments. The request, however, continues to be studied by both the Ministry of Finance and the Parliament.
The additional budget requested by the Ministry of Finance has not yet been approved, as the contracts with the suppliers one by one have started to expire but there are not the necessary approvals to announce the bids on time. What's worse is that even contracts that do not come to an end acrobatic as they operate by the "running" method (ie the state pays based on its orders whenever it needs them) and therefore without money it is not possible to place orders. On credit.
Source: FILELEFTHEROS
