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The Special Center for the Treatment of Related Cardiovascular Diseases (EKASKAP) has been closed or underperforming since September 2011
• It is the only public Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Center in Greece
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• In September 2019, it closed abruptly under the pretext of renovating the clinic. However, no other clinic of Agia Sofia or Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Clinic was closed while it was being renovated.
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• Since March 2020, EKASKAP has been completely closed to accommodate an intensive covid-19 unit without any indication as of today when it will reopen.
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• The result of all this is that there is a big problem in managing the existing waiting list at a time when the right time to perform the surgery is in many cases crucial to its good outcome.
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• The Onasseum Cardio Surgery Clinic, which undertook the surgery of children with congenital heart disease, insured and uninsured, at no cost to parents, cannot be a
general solution...
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....because children often suffer from other diseases or postoperative complications that require the assistance of other specialties and in the case of heart patients Newborns, these should be monitored in the Intensive Care Unit....
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..... near the operating room and inside the Children's Hospital in order to move the surgery to a more straightforward time in order to increase the chances of success.
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• For TEN years we have been persistently asking for the obvious: to have a fully staffed and fully functional Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Center WITHIN a public Pediatric Hospital.
• WE DO NOT KNOW who is blocking the obvious. It transcends our perception and ethics.

• We do not understand how political leaders have been unable to stop them for ten years. It goes beyond our logic.
• We know very well that no one can guarantee that surgeries will always have a happy outcome.
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... However, the state has an OBLIGATION to make every effort to ensure all these conditions so that the best possible result is achieved in each case.
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• FOR ALL THESE REASONS,WE ASK THAT PEDIATRIC CARDIO SURGERY CLINIL OF CHILDREN AGIA SOFIA (EKASKAP) BE OPENED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,FULLY STAFFED AND FULLY OPERATIONAL.
June 6 2020
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