{"id":2255,"date":"2026-04-23T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:05:00","slug":"marios-themistocleous-waiting-time-in-hospital-emergency-rooms-halved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Marios Themistocleous: Waiting time in hospital emergency rooms halved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"269\">Significant reduction in waiting time at <b>TTEPs<\/b> announced by <b>Secretary of State for Health<\/b>, with hours falling from 9 to 4.5.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"581\">Talking to CNN Greece on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum, <strong data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"423\">Marios Themistokleoys<\/strong> stressed that <b>Emergency Departments<\/b> are the &#8220;<b>gateway<\/b>&#8221; to <b>National Health System<\/b>, making patient service time critical.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"798\">As he explained, the improvement was achieved through <b>targeted recruitment of medical and nursing staff<\/b>, but also by expanding the space of the ICUs in order to <b>upgrade the conditions for patients and employees<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1012\">She also made special reference to the <b>electronic tracking system (&#8220;bracelet&#8221;),<\/b> which allows the identification of delays and the <b>dynamic reallocation of staff<\/b>, helping to <b>reduce waiting times<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1242\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He noted that <b>of the renovations of the 156 health centres<\/b>, <strong data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1125\">more than half have already been completed<\/strong>, stressing that these are fully modernised structures, with modern equipment and upgraded infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister of Health announced a significant reduction in the waiting time in emergency departments, with the hours falling from 9 to 4.5 hours.<br \/>\nSpeaking to CNN Greece on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}