Tag Archives: health care

Almost 6,500 health care workers and 500 ambulance service members have been suspended from their jobs over their failure to meet a deadline to vaccinate themselves against Covid-19, the health minister said on Friday. Thanos Plevris told MPs that of the 6,412 healthcare workers who are suspended for not getting …

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Neo-liberal policies will be implemented in the social security and pensions sector, should New Democracy come to power. ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Bank of Greece governor, Yannis Stournaras, fully agree on that. New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to abolish the so-called Katrougalos law that cut pensions once …

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Life expectancy in Greece rose for decades but dropped in 2015, in the sixth year of economic crisis and austerity measures that brought also dramatic expenditure cuts in the health sector. According to data from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), after 2014 there was a fall in Greek …

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One in two Greeks postpones seeking medical advice, four in ten patients cannot afford to pay patient’s participation in the purchase of prescription medication due to lack of economic means. This was revealed by the president of the program “Health for All,” Eleni Sotiropoulou. Groups most affected by the economic …

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Majority of Greeks pay from their own pockets for health care services, an average of 300 euros per year for doctors’ visits and laboratory and diagnostic tests. At the same time, 21 percent say they did not receive medical care they needed mainly because mainly of the cost. The nationwide …

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Greece’s government submitted the Budget 2018 to the Parliament late Tuesday. The Budget 2018, the last ‘bailout’ budget, targets a record primary surplus of 3.82 percent of GDP and a stunning growth rate of 2.5%. How will these will be possible? With 2.2 billion euros in new taxes and welfare …

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Health Minister Andreas Xanthos announced a legislation in order to facilitate the write off of uninsured patients’ debts to public hospitals and therefore to the tax office. Speaking to Sto Kokkino FM, Xanthos said that there have been confirmed debts amounting 28,000,000 euros for treatment of uninsured patients until 2015. …

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It’s not a melodrama for the sake of it. It is a real Greek story in times of real Greek austerity, of collapsed lives, of damaged health and broken dreams. A 65-year-old cancer-patient was dragged to two police stations and was fined with 10,000 euro for selling on the street …

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The independent investigator from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner concluded his mission on the effects of the foreign debt crisis, the creditors’ adjustment program and the impact on economic, social and cultural Human rights. In the UNHR website, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky posted his preliminary report …

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The major of Stylida city and a lawyer filed lawsuits against former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. The two blame the ex FinMin for “actions that led to economic measures” and “high treason”. A third complaint has been filed for the “hacking of taxpayers’ registration numbers (AFMs). A fourth lawsuit has been …

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Do Greece’s creditors follow and apply advises proposed by conservative New Democracy? It is highly interesting that ND parliamentary group leader and former Health Minister Adonis Gerogriadis had already “advised” creditors to not adopt Tsipras’ plan and instead economically drain the country and impose capital controls. Georgiadis’ proposal came after …

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Greece is a country always good for surprises! And here comes a painful injection to the hundreds of volunteers offering their services to the poor of the IMF-austerity hit country. After a couple of years of social practice and solidarity in the field of health care and 51 units across …

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UPDATE: After the outcry and the troubled Greke patients standing up to three hour sin long queues, Greek pharmacies suspended their strike on April 1st 2014. March 26th, KTG reported: Hardly had Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis “solved” the problems with the doctors working at National Health Care system, he …

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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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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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It’s always difficult to catch up with the news if there has been a blogging break for a couple of days. And it is more difficult when re-start blogging occurs on a Monday. Nothing extraordinary important occurred during the weekend. Bloggers need a break from time to time, to step …

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The meeting between the Troika and the Minister of  Administrative Reform was postponed in what it looks as ‘disagreement on the lay-offs issues’. The meeting was scheduled for Monday morning, but it was cancelled by the Troika as the representatives of Greece’s lenders asked for “time credit” without giving further …

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Groundbreaking changes in Greece’s pension schemes are on the way as the social insurance funds are about to collapse due to high unemployment and liquidity shortage in the labor market. There are plans for a national pension of just 360 EUR and a ‘compulsory life insurance’ to cover the rest …

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I really do not get it. Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was eager to join the Troika-demanded trimming down of the country’s public sector through the enforced “mobility scheme”/”personnel transfer”/ kick in the as*”- scheme or call it however you want it.A total of 1,641 health-care employees are to be …

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That these issues are hardly mentioned by mainstream media, it does not mean that theses issues do not exist. Month in, month out, thousands of Greeks get confronted with the cuts in health care. Cuts occurring in subtle and crooked way. Every time an insured Greek goes to a doctor …

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