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 …
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Refund for tests in diagnostic centers is”illegal”, says Health Minister
The dispute between the private diagnostic centers and the Health Ministry took a new turn after Minister Andreas Xanthos described as “illegal” the centers’ procedure to demand that insured patients pay 85% of the bill from their own pockets and claim refund by the National Health Insurance Fund EOPYY. He …
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Shock for cancer patients: “Life expectancy” needed for prescription medication
Outrage and shock for cancer patients in Greece in need of expensive drugs. Doctors are obliged to mention the patient’s “life expectancy” on the prescription, when it comes to expensive medication. The case of a patient has caused outrage and shocked not only cancer patients but also the medical community. …
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Attention! Practical advice for insured patients, while EOPYY is closed
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 …
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Doctors protest as Greek Health Minister closes down Primary Health Care units for one month
Primary health care doctors, administrative personnel and patients ‘occupied’ several EOPYY units on Monday morning to protest the unprecedented: the closure of primary health care provider 380 units for at least one month. The protesters hindered the handing over of the health facilities to representatives of the health ministry. Health …
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Greek Health SOS: new “reform” bill to leave patients without access to health care
Hundreds of doctors working at National Health Care system (EOPYY) and public hospitals gathered in downtown Athens on Thursday morning to protest the so-called “health reforms” that close down the National Health Care institution (EOPYY), will give the green light to lay-offs of some 3,000 doctors and close down thousands …
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Greek insured to pay one euro per prescription as of Jan 8/2014
A new tax, a new poll levy. As of today, 8th January 2014, Greek insured will be obliged to pay one euro per prescription they will redeem at the pharmacies. The euro-levy will go for the National Health Care system EOPYY. According to health ministry, excepted from the poll levy …
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Health Minister admits: health care access for all? Not in Greece…
In a unprecedented official confession Greek health minister Adonis Georgiadis admitted that the national health care system is not for all to have access to and that the privatization of the public health care is not away. According to health care news iatropedia.gr, when asked when the National health care …
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More than 3 million Greeks have no access to public health care system
More than three million Greek citizens are currently uninsured and consequently have no access to public health care system and medical care. According to Dimitris Kontos, the President of Greek National Health Care system (EOPYY), the national health care system currently serves 6,171,000 people with insurance capacity, while the uninsured citizens …
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Patras: Father of bedridden girl on hunger strike to protest health care cuts
The father of a bedridden girl started a hunger strike on Monday morning in order to raise attention to the problem of harsh cuts in Greece’s health care system. Nikos Poulkoutzis’s daughter Maria suffers from a rare disease. The girl is bedridden and in need of high medical and personal …
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Greek Pharmacists start giving medicine on credit again, Dec 20/2012
After almost four weeks of mobilizations due to outstanding debts by the Greek National Health Care Organization (EOPYY), Greece’s pharmacists will start to give prescription medicine on credit again. The decision was announce don Wednesday after a meeting of the Greek Pharmacists Federation. Apparently the Health Ministry will start paying …
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Greek FinMin Stournaras: Ireland & Portugal envy level of health services in Greece (lol)
No, it’s not a joke. However I thought to start the day with this story, because reading it makes you wanna live nowhere else but in Greece 🙂 Speaking at a health care conference in Athens, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras told the audience that Ireland and Portugal seek the ways how …
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Troubles ahead as pharmacists, EOPYY and state hospital doctors go on strike (Dec17-19/2012)
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 …
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Pharmasists: 48h Strike (Nov26/27/12), Stop Prescription Medicine on Credit
A new round of troubles begin next week for Greek patients as pharmacists will stop giving prescription medicine on credit for those insured at EOPYY, the National Health Care Organization of Greece. Pharmacists will start their actions with a 48-hour strike on Monday and Tuesday, 26-27 November 2012. They protest the delay in payments …
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Health S.O.S – Greece Kills the Chronic-Ill, Alzheimer’s and Kidney Patients
Health in Greece is sick. As sick as the brains of those who take such decisions and force thousands of people to painful death as they deprive them of life-saving medicine. Call it ‘Third Austerity Package’, call it ‘a country in bankruptcy’, call it however you want, fact is: the …
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Employees Build a Wall in Hospital Entrance for Mental-Ill
Employees at Dromokaitio, the Athens state hospital for mentally ill decided to block the entrance for new patients claiming the hospital was overcrowded and there was no place for new admissions. With trowel and cement blocks, protesting employees started to build a wall right in the entrance of the hospital. Video: making …
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Athens: Strikes, Work Stoppages, Protest Rallies, Sept 20/2012
Traffic jams in all major streets of downtown Athens occurred on Thursday morning as thousands of residents had to use their vehicles to go to work due to the 24-hour strike at Metro, Tram and urban train ISAP. Workers protest wages cuts and demand the ticket fares to go down to one euro (from …
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Shortage of Drugs Due to Pharma Embargo to Greek National Health Service
The never ending story of the Greek patient: While private pharmacists continue to block prescription medicine on credit, drugs have started to disappear from the pharmacies shelves of EOPYY. Patients have now to seek state pharmacies in hospitals to get life-saving medication. Gerasimos Voudouris, president of National health Care Services EOPYY, …
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“Death Penalty” For Cancer Patients in Greece as Health Care Collapses
Cancer patients have reached the point of not being able to take their medication because they have no money to buy them as pharmacists protest the national health care organisation EOPYY and do not give prescription medicine on credit. At the same time hospitals postpone cancer surgeries due to retention of physicians. The huge …
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Will Greeks Get Their Drugs at Super-Markets? So to Say “At the Cheese Stand”?
In the country of innovation and the unprecedented, no extreme is impossible. Greek Health Minister Andreas Lykourentzos said, that he would make law changes so that drugs could be obtained also at super markets. Speaking at the Healthworld 2012 conference, organized by the Greek-American Chamber of Commerce, Lykourentzos said: “We will find …
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