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Greek Health Minister Defends Hospital Renovation After Plaster Incident

Greek Health Minister Georgiadis fires back after a hospital plaster incident, defending Greece’s largest-ever public healthcare infrastructure renovation program.

Greek Health Minister Defends Hospital Renovation After Plaster Incident
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Greece’s Health Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, took to social media on Tuesday (11/8) to address the incident involving falling plaster in a closed office at the 70-year-old “Venizeleio” hospital, using the opportunity to highlight the significance of the country’s ongoing hospital renovation program.

Read also: Adonis Georgiadis: “The ‘misery gang’ wants to paint a picture of a collapsing national health system — relax, people”

The largest infrastructure upgrade in Greek public healthcare history

In his post, Adonis Georgiadis stressed that “for nearly three years now, using resources from our Regular Budget, the Recovery Fund, ESPA, and by securing an unprecedented volume of private sponsorships, we have been executing the largest building upgrade program in the history of the National Health System (ESY) since its founding. Why are we doing this? Because we were the first to acknowledge that after so many decades, these buildings are worn out — and some are in a deplorable condition.”

Give credit where credit is due

The Health Minister continued: “Come on, people — make up your minds. Either the walls need renovating and we must fix them all — including Venizeleio, obviously — in which case everything we’ve been doing across the country has value, and you should give us some credit. Or the walls don’t matter, what we’re doing is pointless, and then you shouldn’t care about the plaster that fell either. You can’t have it both ways.”

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis’ full social media post

“Let’s go through this one step at a time. For nearly three years now, using resources from our Regular Budget, the Recovery Fund, ESPA, and by securing an unprecedented number of private sponsorships, we have been executing the largest building upgrade program in ESY’s history since its founding. Why? Because we were the first to recognize that after so many decades, these buildings are worn out — and some are in a terrible state. This program is now nearly complete, and I am inaugurating renovated facilities across the country — health centers, clinics, and emergency departments. And I will keep doing so, because there is still a great deal more to open.

As a rule, whenever I talk about this — whether I’m at Parliament, on a TV show, or visiting a facility — my political opponents or journalists immediately respond: ‘Sure, but what about staffing, etc.,’ effectively brushing aside this enormous effort as if it were trivial. And if I happen to encounter protesters from the Left’s so-called ‘misery gang,’ it gets even worse — they don’t just dismiss these projects, they start chanting: ‘walls don’t make healthcare.’ In other words: renovate everything you want, we don’t care.

Yesterday, a piece of plaster roughly 1.5 meters in size fell in a closed office inside a 70-year-old building, and suddenly all hell broke loose. ‘The health system is collapsing,’ and so on — and out of nowhere, the very same people who have been saying for so long that walls don’t matter started talking about the urgent need to renovate Venizeleio Hospital, which hasn’t been renovated in 72 years.

So come on, people — choose. Either the walls do matter and we need to renovate everything, including Venizeleio, meaning everything we’ve been doing across the country has value and deserves some acknowledgment. Or the walls don’t matter, what we’re doing is pointless, and then you have no grounds to complain about the fallen plaster either. You simply cannot have it both ways.

As for the incident itself — it was essentially a minor, entirely insignificant event, but it does confirm that this building is indeed in need of renovation. I have already commissioned the relevant study for the project. Vote again for

@kmitsotakis in the 2027 general elections so we can continue doing what we’re doing — and we will fix this too, just as we have already fixed so many others, regardless of the constant attacks from the unions of doom and gloom…”

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