Nurses’ demand gets satisfied

The integration of each nurses, nursing assistants, arsenic well arsenic ambulance drivers and paramedics of the National Health System (ESY) and the Emergency Medical Service (EKAB) into unhealthy and hazardous professions will yet happen, arsenic the Labor Ministry proceeds with a regularisation that has for years been a request of workers successful the nationalist wellness sector.

That was not based lone connected the requests of the unions, but chiefly connected society itself, which recognizes the captious and highly demanding relation that frontline workers play successful hospitals and exigency services. 

In fact, trying to make a broader model that will marque wellness professions much charismatic to young people, the Health Ministry is expected to contiguous different interventions successful the adjacent future.

On Tuesday, Labor Minister Niki Kerameus confirmed connected Open TV that the integration successful this class of nurses, nursing assistants, arsenic well arsenic ambulance drivers and paramedics of ESY and the Emergency Medical Service is progressing. 

As she stated, this is “an important regulation” that will support a nonrecreational assemblage that works under peculiarly hard and burdensome conditions. 

According to reliable information, ineligible proviso has already been drafted, curing a chronic distortion successful ESY. This is due to the fact that today two categories of nurses coexist: those hired earlier 2011 and stay extracurricular the hazardous and unhealthy professions regime, and those hired aft 2011 and are already subject to it. 

These are employees who execute precisely the aforesaid work, successful the aforesaid hospitals, successful the aforesaid departments and under the aforesaid stressful conditions, but are treated otherwise successful terms of their κοινωνικά information and labour rights. 

Now, with the proviso promoted, according to sources, each related issues will beryllium resolved, which is expected to bring substantial changes to the working and κοινωνικά information conditions of employees. This caller designation is accompanied by further contributions, a special allowance and the anticipation of status connected much favorable terms.