“From the very beginning, they said the machine had not been switched on — that was the biggest lie,” declared Matina Pagoni, President of the Panhellenic Medical Association, on Monday morning, referring to the two doctors accused in connection with the death of beloved Greek singer Giorgos Mazonakis. “People loved this singer — it’s as if he never really left their side,” Pagoni said, adding: “We are absorbing the public’s anger, and it is entirely justified. There are so many unanswered questions about what happened — and the worst part is that after everything that went wrong, they simply took him and transferred him to a hospital.”
“They tried to cover it all up,” she said, speaking directly about the two doctors involved.
Pagoni on Mazonakis: If he had been transferred to hospital sooner, he might still be alive
“From the very start, they claimed the machine had not been started — and that was the biggest lie of all,” Pagoni stressed in her interview with Skai television. She also reiterated that there is no medical study supporting the use of plasmapheresis for resuscitation purposes, adding: “Plasmapheresis is a very specific procedure, performed by only a handful of specialists, and only under very particular patient conditions.”
Pagoni further suggested that had Giorgos Mazonakis been transferred to hospital more quickly, he might have survived: “We can’t know for certain — but he might have lived,” she said.
