PM Mitsotakis pays visit to beneficiary of home medication delivery

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid a visit this past Wednesday to the home of a beneficiary for the home delivery of High-Cost Medication (HCM).

The premier paid a visit to a cystic fibrosis patient, Yiannis, "one of the thousands of citizens served by the new home-delivery program of HCM," the government announced on Saturday.

According to the statement, the PM said "For me, it is a matter of principle to have more and different ways of delivering such medication, especially to patients who should not suffer through long pharmacy lines at [state EOPYY] dispensaries. Naturally, the more the people who receive medication at home or the next day from their pharmacies, the shorter the lines will be, because some may choose - for reasons of their own - to go themselves and receive the medication from a pharmacy."

The full program began in mid-June and through it there are nearly 10,000 deliveries of HCM per month. So far, a total of 83,000 drugs have been delivered, including in facilities of regional Greece. It serves patients with chronic conditions who have transportation problems, and is free of charge. Soon the program will include delivery at a patient's neighborhood pharmacy.

Yiannis' sister Anna, who also suffers from cystic fibrosis, underlined the importance of lung transplants, which did not exist in Greece before 2020. Mitsotakis said Greece is seeing a rise in transplants, as this becomes more socially acceptable, and referred to Transplant Center at the Onasseion Hospital, an Onassis Foundation gift, that is nearly ready.