Monday, July 29, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ministry of Health. ----
Announcement on the mental health bill ---- This bill is submitted for
consultation at the beginning of the year, while at the same time two
other bills concerning the privatization of education and the change of
the criminal code are submitted for voting. Its vote is finally
postponed and submitted again for consultation in the previous period.
----- From the first moment, structures and workers oppose it, they warn
of the dangers that its application brings both to the beneficiaries of
the services and to the working conditions, they speak of the state's
attempt to carry out an ideological shift in the perception of -in this
case mental or more broadly- health from a "social good" to a commodity,
openly setting class barriers and renouncing its responsibility to
provide social welfare.
While the dismantling of public health through understaffing, abolition,
closure of structures and burnout of staff is a project that has been
carried out for the last decade under the pretext of the economic
crisis, at the same time the funding from state funds of private
services has been continuously promoted, which come to to cover the
deficiencies that are deliberately created in the public sector with
services of dubious quality. The bill to be passed - now also according
to the letter of the law - comes to involve private clinics even in
involuntary hospitalizations, justifying this direction based on the
fullness of the existing public clinics for acute crises. The
government, criticizing the quality of public clinics, which it, like
the previous governments, took care to degrade, proposes that the
patients and their families become the pawns of private agreements with
the clinicians with the sole and main purpose of their profit,
essentially bypassing all the legally guaranteed safety and control
valves of hospitalizations. In the private clinics - which will "solve"
the problem of the public sector - inhumane living conditions with
isolation rooms for hospitalized patients in their basements, with
deaths due to "negligence" during prolonged mechanical immobilizations
without supervision, with over-prescription even in a minor population,
with illegal lifelong hospitalizations.
And the employees of the respective private services, also the burden of
the cost and profit managers, have no scope for intervention in their
workplaces, given that intimidation and subsequent dismissal become a
one-way street, as no one will intervene between the employee and the
boss controlling institution nor social "oversight" through the
publication of conditions. The above working relationship is now being
attempted to be established in the public sector as well. Recently, an
attempt was made to dismiss an employee from the National Institute of
Public Health due to trade union action, which was prevented due to the
immediate mobilization of the union, effectively opening the conditions
of precariousness and ideological control of staff even in public services.
The bill simultaneously provides for the "unification of all mental
health and addiction institutions in the[National Network of Mental
Health Services (N.D.Y.PS.Y.), National Organization for the Prevention
and Treatment of Addictions (E.O.P.A.E. .). This "unification" is
nothing more than the institutionalization of government control over
all existing structures, as the financing of each structure will be done
by "bargaining" with the respective government-appointed administrator
of the funds. The above institution, evaluating each service with cost
criteria (as clearly defined in the bill) and efficiency, will have the
freedom to cut or give funding, to give orders for further merger or
under-funding, leading the services - their which are blamed for their
non-cooperation in the present - cannibalism and "quick cures" (drugs
and substitutes), competing for their continued existence. By abolishing
the autonomy of each structure - especially in addiction - the ideology
of "harm reduction" and "disability" through substitutes or lifelong
medication is promoted, while approaches with greater long-term
efficiency based on community management and reintegration models are
also sidelined in over time are abolished.
The above is not an exception but the rule of the neoliberal policy that
the state-capitalist system now chooses beyond any pretext. From the
privatization of water and electricity, the establishment of private
universities and the introduction of private sponsorships in primary and
secondary education, the privatization of public transport and the
increasing socio-economic impoverishment of society through the new
labor code, it is evident that in altar of profit there are no barriers.
We therefore defend the public and free nature of health as a whole as
it is an essential conquest of the social and class base within this
system of human exploitation. A system of exploitation which only
promises poverty, destitution and death. It is vital that we strive by
placing the collective health (mental and physical) of society at the
center rather than the profiteering of human suffering as attempted by
the state and capitalists throughout time, with all governments serving
this purpose. We stand by the mental health workers, hospital doctors,
and all the workers in the health structures who fight to defend free
public health and claim better working conditions.
Solidarity, collective struggles from below and class organization are
our weapons against the encroachment of the state & capitalism that
attacks all social fields. Against the extreme underestimation of human
life, let us promote solidarity and mutual aid, the universal collective
values of freedom and equality. Against the usurpation of our labor
rights and the deterioration of working and living conditions, let us
put forward grassroots organization and struggle to win what is taken
from us every day with so much violence and repression. To organize side
by side in all fields, to fight, to respond.
Solidarity in the struggle of mental health and addiction workers!
No to the privatization of health!
EXCLUSIVE PUBLIC AND FREE MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL
Liberal Assembly for Class Organization at the Base
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1667-thes-niki-diadilosi-gia-tin-yperaspisi-tou-dimosiou-xaraktira-tis-psyxikis-ygeias
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Announcement on the mental health bill ---- This bill is submitted for
consultation at the beginning of the year, while at the same time two
other bills concerning the privatization of education and the change of
the criminal code are submitted for voting. Its vote is finally
postponed and submitted again for consultation in the previous period.
----- From the first moment, structures and workers oppose it, they warn
of the dangers that its application brings both to the beneficiaries of
the services and to the working conditions, they speak of the state's
attempt to carry out an ideological shift in the perception of -in this
case mental or more broadly- health from a "social good" to a commodity,
openly setting class barriers and renouncing its responsibility to
provide social welfare.
While the dismantling of public health through understaffing, abolition,
closure of structures and burnout of staff is a project that has been
carried out for the last decade under the pretext of the economic
crisis, at the same time the funding from state funds of private
services has been continuously promoted, which come to to cover the
deficiencies that are deliberately created in the public sector with
services of dubious quality. The bill to be passed - now also according
to the letter of the law - comes to involve private clinics even in
involuntary hospitalizations, justifying this direction based on the
fullness of the existing public clinics for acute crises. The
government, criticizing the quality of public clinics, which it, like
the previous governments, took care to degrade, proposes that the
patients and their families become the pawns of private agreements with
the clinicians with the sole and main purpose of their profit,
essentially bypassing all the legally guaranteed safety and control
valves of hospitalizations. In the private clinics - which will "solve"
the problem of the public sector - inhumane living conditions with
isolation rooms for hospitalized patients in their basements, with
deaths due to "negligence" during prolonged mechanical immobilizations
without supervision, with over-prescription even in a minor population,
with illegal lifelong hospitalizations.
And the employees of the respective private services, also the burden of
the cost and profit managers, have no scope for intervention in their
workplaces, given that intimidation and subsequent dismissal become a
one-way street, as no one will intervene between the employee and the
boss controlling institution nor social "oversight" through the
publication of conditions. The above working relationship is now being
attempted to be established in the public sector as well. Recently, an
attempt was made to dismiss an employee from the National Institute of
Public Health due to trade union action, which was prevented due to the
immediate mobilization of the union, effectively opening the conditions
of precariousness and ideological control of staff even in public services.
The bill simultaneously provides for the "unification of all mental
health and addiction institutions in the[National Network of Mental
Health Services (N.D.Y.PS.Y.), National Organization for the Prevention
and Treatment of Addictions (E.O.P.A.E. .). This "unification" is
nothing more than the institutionalization of government control over
all existing structures, as the financing of each structure will be done
by "bargaining" with the respective government-appointed administrator
of the funds. The above institution, evaluating each service with cost
criteria (as clearly defined in the bill) and efficiency, will have the
freedom to cut or give funding, to give orders for further merger or
under-funding, leading the services - their which are blamed for their
non-cooperation in the present - cannibalism and "quick cures" (drugs
and substitutes), competing for their continued existence. By abolishing
the autonomy of each structure - especially in addiction - the ideology
of "harm reduction" and "disability" through substitutes or lifelong
medication is promoted, while approaches with greater long-term
efficiency based on community management and reintegration models are
also sidelined in over time are abolished.
The above is not an exception but the rule of the neoliberal policy that
the state-capitalist system now chooses beyond any pretext. From the
privatization of water and electricity, the establishment of private
universities and the introduction of private sponsorships in primary and
secondary education, the privatization of public transport and the
increasing socio-economic impoverishment of society through the new
labor code, it is evident that in altar of profit there are no barriers.
We therefore defend the public and free nature of health as a whole as
it is an essential conquest of the social and class base within this
system of human exploitation. A system of exploitation which only
promises poverty, destitution and death. It is vital that we strive by
placing the collective health (mental and physical) of society at the
center rather than the profiteering of human suffering as attempted by
the state and capitalists throughout time, with all governments serving
this purpose. We stand by the mental health workers, hospital doctors,
and all the workers in the health structures who fight to defend free
public health and claim better working conditions.
Solidarity, collective struggles from below and class organization are
our weapons against the encroachment of the state & capitalism that
attacks all social fields. Against the extreme underestimation of human
life, let us promote solidarity and mutual aid, the universal collective
values of freedom and equality. Against the usurpation of our labor
rights and the deterioration of working and living conditions, let us
put forward grassroots organization and struggle to win what is taken
from us every day with so much violence and repression. To organize side
by side in all fields, to fight, to respond.
Solidarity in the struggle of mental health and addiction workers!
No to the privatization of health!
EXCLUSIVE PUBLIC AND FREE MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL
Liberal Assembly for Class Organization at the Base
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1667-thes-niki-diadilosi-gia-tin-yperaspisi-tou-dimosiou-xaraktira-tis-psyxikis-ygeias
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