Parliament: Greece’s agreements with Egypt and Cyprus in the health sector ratified

The draught laws of the Ministry of Health were passed with a ample bulk by the Plenary of the Parliament: 1. “Ratification of the Memorandum of Understanding betwixt the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Government of the Republic of Cyprus and the Government of the Hellenic Republic connected practice successful the assorted sectors of wellness care” and 2. “Ratification of the Agreement amending the Agreement betwixt the Governments of the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus connected practice successful the tract of nationalist health”.

The 2 bills were voted for by ND, PASOK and Syriza, voted against by KKE, portion Hellenic Solution, Nea Aristera, Niki and Liberty Party were present.

As the rapporteur of the New Democracy Party, Thanasis Papathanasis, stressed, these are agreements that fortify our country’s presumption successful the Mediterranean and astatine the aforesaid clip service the cardinal extremity of protecting and upgrading nationalist health.

Citing arsenic an illustration the wellness situation that erupted worldwide with the pandemic, helium pointed retired regarding the Agreement with Cyprus, that connected the 1 manus it is an enactment that consolidates an already beardown practice successful an country cardinal to the payment state, portion a unchangeable model is created that allows our wellness authorities to cooperate institutionally, without bureaucratic delays connected issues specified arsenic epidemiological surveillance, absorption of nationalist wellness crises, the improvement of communal protocols, the usage of integer systems for the absorption of nationalist health, and the improvement of a communal attack to wellness care. Moreover, helium spoke of the geopolitical and strategical magnitude since practice successful the wellness assemblage is not lone humanitarian, it is besides political.

Regarding the statement with Egypt, Papathanasis stressed that it is arsenic crucial, arsenic it broadens the skyline of Greece’s practice successful a cardinal state for the Southeastern Mediterranean, with which opportunities are created for the speech of know-how successful infirmary medication and the enactment of wellness services, associated probe projects successful drugs and vaccines, the improvement of innovative tools successful the tract of biomedical technology. Specifically, helium noted that the practice provides for the speech of aesculapian and nursing staff, grooming of wellness officials, improvement of integer wellness systems, and enactment for the pharmaceutical and aesculapian instrumentality industry, which is precise important for our country. Finally, helium besides referred to the geopolitical value of the Agreement, since the Memorandum is not an isolated agreement, but is portion of the wider strategy of trilateral practice betwixt Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt, and our state becomes a hub of stableness and practice successful the Eastern Mediterranean, upgrading its geopolitical relation and safeguarding its nationalist interests.