Friday, March 29, 2024
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The Eugenides Foundation donated two ambulances to Ios and Rhodes

The Eugenides Foundation donated two small ambulances to Ios and Rhodes and the Minister of Health Thanos Pleuris and the Deputy Minister of Health Mina Gaga attended the delivery ceremony to the 2nd DYPE.
This is a donation of two small ambulances in the amount of 117,120 euros to strengthen the Health Center of Ios and the Health Center in Genadi of Rhodes.
The event was attended by the President of the Foundation, Leonidas Dimitriadis Eugenides and the Governor of the Foundation, former Rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Ioannis Goliasthe commander of the 2nd DIPE Christos Roilos the deputies of Cyclades Philip Fortomas and Yannis Vroutsis and the mayors of Ios Gikas Gikas and the mayor of Rhodes Antonis Kambourakis.
The President of the Foundation, Leonidas Dimitriadis Evgenidis, speaking at the event, said that “we feel that our donation is an obligation we have towards Greek society. The Eugenides Foundation, while its main purpose of operation and action is technical, scientific and professional education, has always been present when there were serious difficulties and crises in our homeland.
Such as the silent and large contribution of Evgenios Eugenides to the earthquakes of Zakynthos, or the donation of 3,000,000 dollars by Nikolaos Vernikos – Eugenides to the earthquakes of 1999. With the outbreak of the pandemic, we have directly and indirectly donated more than 1.5 million euros to actions.
But we didn’t stop there. We considered it our duty to offer to Public Health as well, with a program of targeted donations to Sotiria, Attikon and Children’s hospitals and beyond. We estimated that especially at these times our islands should be strengthened and insularity should be supported.
I am an islander, I am Cycladic and I know very well the problems our islands face. The donation of an ambulance to Ios is the result of our excellent cooperation with the Health Center of Ios, an island where during the summer months its population doubles. At the same time, the decisive contribution of the commander of the 2nd DYPE of Piraeus and Aegean, Mr. Christos Roilos, where he pointed out the huge shortage of ambulances in Southern Rhodes, makes us feel that this donation has a great impact. We are sure that these actions will take place, in a holistic way”.
For his part, the Minister of Health Thanos Pleuris said: “This offer is important for our islands and we thank you for the donation of the two ambulances.
With initiatives that we voted in the previous period, we give incentives mainly in the summer months to have more staff in order to cover the needs.
There is also the particularity of medical technological equipment where we have committed resources from the Recovery Fund and from other financial tools such as the NSRF.
I want to thank Mr. Eugenides because the money given from donations is money that goes back to society.
They are donations that we have complete dependence on the patient’s transport. We are working on a broader framework to have a proper air transportation system from our islands with more helicopters and stations that we will present soon.”
The Deputy Minister of Health Mina Gaga pointed out: “The Eugenidou Foundation offered and continues to offer health services, without even being asked. In Health, in the pandemic, in “Salvation” Leonidas Eugenidis offered himself during the corona virus period and made very large donations, just like in Attiko and many hospitals.
Now about the islands: Greece has this great gift of God, the islands and the issue is how we make sure we have good health services and health personnel.
At the Ministry, we have taken important initiatives these years.
We take care, cooperating with everyone, with the Municipalities and with the hoteliers, for the accommodation of the health workers, whenever they need to move.
We enable doctors, nurses and technologists, by doubling their salary, to go to the islands in the summer to provide health services. And we can do the same with ambulances, giving more flexibility to the National Health System, to cover the population both in winter and in summer when we have more needs.
We consider the safe handling of both chronic and Emergencies as well as safe transports to each place, so that every citizen has the health services they need, as capital issues.

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