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Faced with growing public frustration at home, Greek doctors are seeking work in Cyprus, which, according to news reports this weekend, is flooded with Gesy.
Insufficient staff, poor infrastructure and low salaries are among the reasons that force Greek doctors to move to Cyprus.
greek sunday newspaper That Weima says that salaries for doctors in the health service can be up to €5,000 lower than in Cyprus, before allowances and overtime pay are taken into account.
Intensive care physician and anesthesiologist Patroula Manolopoulou, who has worked in the Greek Health System (Esy) for 25 years, told the newspaper that deciding to give up a structured life at the age of 60 was not easy.
She revealed to the weekly that she quit her job at Patras General Hospital and moved to Cyprus, and she is not the only one to do so.
“The clinics in Cyprus are almost entirely staffed by Greeks,” she said.
Greek doctors describe Cyprus’s still young health system (Gesy) as a professional paradise with high salaries and ideal working conditions.
“Oncologists, gynecologists, surgeons from Greece come here because they have nothing to lose. They can no longer live there. Here they may not get rich, but at least you can live like a human being,” said Evangelos Klapakis, a general practitioner.
For the past six years, Klapakis has been living and working in Cyprus with his wife, a gynecologist.
Manolopoulou said she left Greece with a basic net salary of €1,980 as a director, but when she arrived in Cyprus she was earning twice that, and three times that with allowances and salary increases.
Greek doctors say that in addition to the salary, they are also respected and appreciated for their work.
Marcela Volneanski left her job as a GP in Kefalonia and came to Cyprus to escape her worsening condition.
What brought her down was the exhaustion from long hours, consecutive night shifts and constant rushing from the hospital to the clinic and back again.
In Cyprus, Volneyansky works five days a week, eight hours a day.
Manolopoulou said she visited Greece frequently but found that nothing had changed there.
“There was a half-dead Esy wandering around and no one had decided to euthanize or revive it,” she told That Weima.
Her three-year contract with Gesy is about to expire and she will sign an indefinite contract.
“I work in an organized system, in a large and excellent unit, I am part of a high-level scientific team, I am paid enough, and most importantly, I feel that the state does not laugh at me and that I am respected,” Manolopoulou said.
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