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Haidari hospital still closed

The doors of the much promoted Attico Hospital in Haidari, western Attica, remain firmly shut – with no official word as to when they will open – despite government assurances that the ultramodern facility would begin alleviating Attica’s inadequate health services from the end of last month. Staffing problems appear to be the key cause of delay after the government declared the hospital a part of the National Health System rather than a university hospital, following the breakdown in negotiations in April between university doctors and former Health Minister Alekos Papadopoulos. The doctors had refused to accept the terms set by Papadopoulos under the original plans for Attico to be a university hospital. But 170 university doctors are now declaring themselves ready to move to the Haidari facility. President of the Athens University Medical School Christos Kittas told Kathimerini that doctors were ready to restart negotiations with the new health minister, Costas Stefanis, who took over in late May. «Our position on the transfer of university clinics to the hospital is positive,» he said. He also referred to an agreement reached for a natural gas link between the two countries.

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