{"id":163793,"date":"2025-06-06T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163793\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:02:09","slug":"greece-to-launch-home-delivery-of-specialized-medicines-on-june-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163793\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece to launch home delivery of specialized medicines on June 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4707011-scaled.jpg?v=1749202775\" alt=\"Greece to launch home delivery of specialized medicines on June 16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4707011-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Greece will begin home delivery of specialized, high-cost medicines for patients with chronic or serious illnesses starting June 16, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, calling it a key step toward improving care and dignity for vulnerable patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an important and moving day,\u201d Mitsotakis said during the launch of the new service by state-run health insurer EOPYY. \u201cA long-standing demand for the self-evident right to dignity and care from the state is becoming a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program, to be carried out in partnership with a certified private distributor, targets patients with mobility or health challenges. It covers medicines such as oncology, immunosuppressive, biological and other specialized drugs used to treat rare or chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis said extensive planning had gone into the rollout and urged citizens to trust the new delivery system.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked patient associations for their continued input, calling them \u201cinstitutional interlocutors\u201d who help shape policies through first-hand knowledge of healthcare needs. [AMNA, Kathimerini]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece will begin home delivery of specialized, high-cost medicines for patients with chronic or serious illnesses starting June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,1491,6655,4326,285,4678,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-in-depth","10":"tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-society","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114638208569913490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}