On March 31st 2012, a forum was held in Melbourne in solidarity with the anti-austerity struggles in Greece against the economic, social, systemic devastation wreaked by the IMF, EU and ECB austerity measures.
One of the people interviewed, Leta, is a doctor at the general hospital of Kilkis. This hospital was occupied by it's workers, and collectively self managed for a number of weeks. The doctors and other health care workers provided free health care in a context where health care has become so unaffordable that people with cancer are going untreated and women must pay 900 euro to give birth in a hospital.
Most of the workers had not been paid for 6 months.
For more information on the occupation:
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2012/03/05/why-we-occupied-our-hospital-an-open-letter-by-a-hospital-doctor-at-the-workers-run-hospital-of-kilkis/
