Personnel at private diagnostic laboratories launched a three-day strike on Thursday, May 26, and during this time they will not offer their services free of charge to patients insured at Greece’s national health insurance EOPYY. The strike starts on Thursday, May 26 until Saturday, May 28, 2022. Patients insured at …

Private diagnostic centers in Greece will go back in operation as of Thursday, June 13th 2019, however with a ‘punishment’ for insured patients. They will have to pay 85% of the bill from their own pocket and then claim refund by the National Health Care Insurance Fund EOPYY. Under the …

Greece’s Health Ministry issued a number of practical advices for insured EOPYY patients for the days EOPPY facilities are closed. As of 18th February 2014 and for a period of one month:    patients should not call the 5-digit phone number to book an appointment with doctors. patients should seek …

Employees at Psychiatric Hospital Dromokaiteio proceeded to symbolic closure of its main entrance on Monday morning. The action aimed to protest the “mobility scheme” ordered by the Troika and executed by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, that will leave the main public psychiatric hospitals of the country almost without personnel. Mental …

Pharmacists will launch a 48-hour strike December 17-18th 2012 to protest the non-payment of outstanding debts by the Greek health ministry. At the same time, they continue to refuse handing out prescription medicine on credit. Millions of insured Greeks see themselves obliged to pay from their own pockets for prescription medicine …

Private doctors collaborating with Greece’s National Organization for Health Care Provision (EOPYY), decided to stop offering their services on credit and charge insured patients. This so called “warning mobilization” will be implemented from August 20th to September 2nd, 2012.   With the action called “work retention”, doctors want to put under pressure the …

The telephone number of National Organisation for Health Care Services (EOPYY) is due to change as of August 6, 2012. Instead of <184> insurers will have to call <14884> or <14900>. At the same time the phone call fees will be raised from 0,03€ per call now to 1,08 euro for …

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis on Wednesday presented the first data emerging after the measures imposed by the health ministry to stop the over-prescription of medication. Georgiadis spoke of “zero tolerance for over-prescribing” as a commitment to protect public health. “Let us stop the waste so that we can use the …

Six in ten doctors want to leave Greece and exactly 6 in 10 citizens declare to be dissatisfied with the services of the public health care system that has worsened in the last 2-4 years, two recent surveys conducted in northern Greece have found. The National Health System (ESY) is …

With threats and blackmails, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has been desperately trying to fill gaps and personnel shortages in public hospitals during the tourist season. The Minister’s policy has angered the medical world in the country, and now doctors are launching an “unofficial” strike. The big loser are, of course: …

Greece’s Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis triggered an outrage and an uproar over the weekend after he told a meeting with representatives of the pharma industry that “3 in 4 prescription medicines for cancer are not necessary for the patients.” He added that “drugs prescribed by doctors for cancer patients should …

Hospitalizations and intubations due to Covid-19 were increased over the week  October 2-8 compared to the previous week, but the number of new infections stayed the same, according to the weekly coronavius report by the National Public Health Organisation (EODY), published on Thursday. The increase of Covid-19 infections has mobilized …

A 58-year-old pathologist specializing in the treatment of diabetes and a 48-year-old nurse at a public health center in Agrinio city in western Greece have been arrested for prescription medication fraud estimated to have cost the state more than 120,000 euros. Among the many charges against them is that of …

Greece’s Health Ministry finally found a solution, a medicine, so to say, to combat drugs shortages: Price Hikes. In the mind of the ‘genius’ health ministry leadership this will scare off citizens/patients from getting medicines and thus creating shortages. Crazy? Cynical? Stay-home-and-die policy? The Health Ministry will raise the prices …

A pediatrician in collaboration with a pharmacist are involved in the illegal trafficking of vaccines for children. the case of the illegal possession and trafficking of vaccines for children by a private pediatrician in collaboration with a private pharmacy was revealed after an anonymous complaint. Following the complaint, inspectors of …

Greece’s Health Ministry will activate a mechanism where citizens can file a complaint if the “personal doctor” asks to be paid. The  complaint mechanism aims to ensure that citizens do not pay for visits in a system that is free of charge for  patients. The “personal doctor” is an institution …

Greece’s Health Ministry announced on Thursday that the implementation of penalties to patients who have not registered with the system of Personal Doctor will be postponed until December 1, 2022. Reason for the postponement are the many shortcomings in the system and thus primarily the shortage of registered doctors. The …

New medical specialists are being added on the system of Personal Doctor, according to a decision signed on Tuesday by Health Minister Thanos Plevris. The addition was essential first of all due to shortage of registered general physician (GP)  in the new system of primary health care but also to …

The platform where citizens in the regions of Attica and South Aegean can register with a personal doctor opens on Thursday afternoon, September 1, 2022. The platform for all other regions has been available since August 1. The Personal Doctor program entails that a single doctor will constantly monitor a …

Diagnostic centers, laboratories, polyclinics and clinical laboratory doctors have launched a three-day strike across Greece. The strike will leave patients insured at the National Health Care Organization (EOPY) without diagnostic tests and screening in private health sector, while public hospitals are “eternally” overwhelmed. The three-day  strike extends from Monday, July …