The Greek Ministry of Health continues to amend the decision to provide free cardiac examinations as part of the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Free examinations will also be carried out in private clinics, writes CNN Greece. On Friday 29 November in the morning, the President of the Association of Independent Cardiologists, Fotios Patsourakos, and the President, Georgios Kochiadakis, and the Vice-President of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology, Konstantinos Thoutouzas, met with the Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, and the Deputy Minister of Health, Irini Agapidaki.
Private cardiologists reacted to the publication of the government bulletin ΦΕΚ with the conditions for the implementation of the prevention program, in which private primary health care institutions (ΠΦΥ) were deprived of the opportunity to conduct free examinations.
The political leadership of the ministry informed representatives of cardiologists that changes will be made, according to which all imaging and biochemical studies provided for in the program will also be carried out in private structures of the ΠΦΥ (clinics, laboratories, polyclinics). There will also be cooperation with competent advisers to the Ministry of Health for the necessary clarifications on the implementation of this decision. The program will be coordinated by university cardiology clinics. At the same time, there will be proposals from the Hellenic Society of Cardiology (Ελληνική Καρδιολογική Εταιρεία) for the introduction of preventive examinations and their modifications.
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