PM Mitsotakis pays visit to beneficiary of home medication delivery

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid a sojourn this past Wednesday to the location of a beneficiary for the location transportation of High-Cost Medication (HCM).

The premier paid a sojourn to a cystic fibrosis patient, Yiannis, "one of the thousands of citizens served by the caller home-delivery programme of HCM," the authorities announced connected Saturday.

According to the statement, the PM said "For me, it is simply a substance of rule to person much and antithetic ways of delivering specified medication, particularly to patients who should not endure done agelong pharmacy lines astatine [state EOPYY] dispensaries. Naturally, the much the radical who person medicine astatine location oregon the adjacent time from their pharmacies, the shorter the lines volition be, due to the fact that immoderate whitethorn take - for reasons of their ain - to spell themselves and person the medicine from a pharmacy."

The afloat programme began successful mid-June and done it determination are astir 10,000 deliveries of HCM per month. So far, a full of 83,000 drugs person been delivered, including successful facilities of determination Greece. It serves patients with chronic conditions who person proscription problems, and is escaped of charge. Soon the programme volition see transportation astatine a patient's vicinity pharmacy.

Yiannis' sister Anna, who besides suffers from cystic fibrosis, underlined the value of lung transplants, which did not beryllium successful Greece earlier 2020. Mitsotakis said Greece is seeing a emergence successful transplants, arsenic this becomes much socially acceptable, and referred to Transplant Center astatine the Onasseion Hospital, an Onassis Foundation gift, that is astir ready.