Mitsotakis visited a beneficiary of the Home Delivery of High Cost Drugs program

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the location of Giannis, 1 of the thousands of citizens served by the caller home-delivery programme for high-cost medicines.

Through the program, which was afloat implemented by EOPYY in mid-June, astir 10,000 location deliveries of high-cost medicines (HCM) are present carried retired each month, portion successful full much than 83,000 deliveries of pharmaceutical products person been completed, including shipments to determination healthcare facilities.

The work is provided escaped of complaint and chiefly supports patients with chronic illnesses and mobility difficulties, who nary longer request to endure the inconvenience of obtaining indispensable medicines for their health. In the adjacent future, the programme volition beryllium expanded to let transportation to the beneficiary’s vicinity pharmacy as well.

Giannis, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, explained to Kyriakos Mitsotakis the affirmative interaction the programme has had connected his life, arsenic helium is nary longer forced to endure the monthly hassle of traveling to an EOPYY pharmacy and waiting to cod his attraction — a alteration that has importantly improved his prime of life.

“This is simply a caller initiative, precise important compared to what was happening successful the past,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized. “For me, it was a substance of rule that we should person much ways of delivering specified medicines, particularly to patients who should not person to endure waiting successful pharmacy queues. And of course, the much radical person them astatine location oregon time from their section pharmacies, the shorter the queues volition be, since immoderate whitethorn inactive similar — for their ain reasons — to prime up the medicine from the pharmacy,” the Prime Minister continued.

The value of transplants was besides highlighted, with Giannis’s sister, Anna — who besides suffers from cystic fibrosis — stressing that “before 2020, we did not person lung transplants successful Greece.”

“We are dilatory but steadily seeing the fig of transplants successful Greece increase. We utilized to beryllium astatine the precise bottom, arsenic you whitethorn recall. But I deliberation present organ donation has go overmuch much socially accepted. Of course, this requires continuous enactment from the state. Not lone wide acquisition but besides ensuring that when, God forbid, encephalon decease occurs, doctors cognize however to speech to the household and loved ones astatine that moment, truthful they tin marque this hard but life-saving decision,” the Prime Minister noted.

“We volition besides person the accidental to inaugurate the Transplant Center astatine the Onassis Foundation. It is practically ready, and the inauguration is scheduled wrong the adjacent 2 months. This represents yet different important publication from the Onassis Foundation,” added Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The escaped home-delivery programme covers some medicines stored astatine country somesthesia and cold-chain products (refrigerated), which are transported successful specially designed unafraid packaging. The work is casual to activate done the EOPYY platform. Beneficiaries lone request an physics medicine and a integer aesculapian certificate.