“We will not allow any funds for Health to be lost and we will absorb all possible funding until the end of the four years when we will be judged,” said Health Minister Thanos Pleuris speaking at the Economist 2022 conference in Athens. As he characteristically said, “it is wrong to link any process such as the election, with financing and the absorption of funds for health” and expressed the belief that at the end of four years we will “be a government again, so the absorption of these funds will continue as normal” “. Regarding the drug, Health Minister Thanos Pleuris emphasized at the conference that it is extremely important for Europe to invest in innovation and production.
“The pandemic has shown the gaps that exist, in terms of innovation but mainly in the production of new medicines in Europe”, he emphasized and requested that both these sectors be developed in order to invest money but also for the EU to be more prepared to face a future health crisis.
Mr. Pleuris admitted that investing in research and innovation is more difficult for Greece, “since here there is the clawback, which prevents investments”.
“We are trying with a series of measures to balance the market and for companies to have the opportunity to plan their investments” he underlined, pointing out once again that the problem is not a price problem but a consumption problem.
“This problem needs to be solved by the government and give the citizens the innovative drugs they need, but the ones they really need,” he said, speaking once again about controlling consumption.
The next steps of the Ministry of Health will be, as he pointed out, the therapeutic protocols, the prescription instructions, but also the realistic negotiations “so that we have the real value of a medicine which is necessary for all citizens who need it”.
He also said, “We want to implement a new payment model that is much more sophisticated in terms of hospital payments.”
Speaking about the “personal doctor” he spoke of a cut in health in our country, pointing out that already in the first week there is a great demand from doctors who want to join the program, recalling that their earnings will reach up to €70,000 per year. “By the end of July, when this process lasts, we believe that the necessary number will be filled, judging by the response of doctors to enter this program,” he concluded.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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