Helliniko
5 November 2012
The
Metropolitan Community Clinic Of Helliniko, in line with its goal of providing
health care of offering health care to each of our
fellow citizens has managed an important victory in opening the doors of the
public health system which had abandoned the uninsured, the indigent and the
unemployed.
An advisor to the Minister of Health, contacted
The head of the Medical Team of The Metropolitan Community Clinic of Helliniko (MCCH), Dr. George Vichas, and requested input on how the Department of Health
could help uninsured patients .
The contact was made as a direct result of
a segment aired on CNN in mid-September
The CNN spot exposed the concerns of cancer
patients in our new period of austerity.
In the last two years, as a result of
austerity measures, the poor, the unemployed and the uninsured are finding it
increasingly impossible to gain access to the public health system.
It seems that the ministry is starting to
search for positive solutions for uninsured citizens. In the telephone conversation, with advisors
to the Minister of Health, Dr. Vichas stated that all uninsured citizens should
have access to the public health system, without exception.
The ministry of Health, according to the
following article (http://news.in.gr/greece/article/?aid=1231220358) apparently
ensures access to the public health system for all those with serious health
problems.
MCCH has worked steadily for the past year
to insure that each of our citizens has free access to health care.
This is our goal, and for that we will
continue to fight.
