Tsipras: A government that doesn't care about public health or societal security

Tsipras spoke of the 'tragic state' of the country's paediatric hospitals at a time when there was an "upsurge of the health crisis" and of "huge shortages" in medicines, due to the government's political choices.

"The National Health System is, perhaps, now at its worst moment than in all the previous years put together," he said.

"We have many surgeries that are being postponed, many clinics that can't operate and hundreds of patients on waiting lists, especially in the paediatric hospitals. At the same time, there is huge lack of medicines. The situation is tragic and the responsibilities very high," he underlined, and accused the government of "having led to the falling apart of the National Health System through its devaluation, its privatisation , through a policy that has room only for profit and profiteering. A government that does not care about public health is a government that also doesn't care about societal security," Tsipras noted.

"A strong public health system is an answer that concerns both the security of society and social justice. We will fight for it because it is something we owe the Greek people," Tsipras concluded.