Meanwhile in Greece

A German traumatologist — trained in assisting communities after acute trauma — explains in the Frankfurter Allgemeine what he saw in Greece last month, where “the reality surpassed his gloomy expectations:”

— Pregnant women with no money and no insurance going from hospital to hospital to find someone to help them deliver their babies

— Recently middle-class people gathering food scraps from the streets

— Those that are admitted to hospitals must bring their own bedding and food

— Doctors and nurses, who have not received pay for months, cleaning toilets in hospitals because everyone else has been fired

— The suicide rate has doubled in the past three years

via Naked Capitalism

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