1. Accessibility and Affordability
of medicines in Greece
Κathi Apostolidis
Breast Cancer & Patient
Rights Advocate
Advisor DE.DI.DI.KA.
TACD-IP Meeting on Access to
Affordable Medicines in Greece

2. Who is The Victim of the Game
Why expensive medicines
became a rare commodity?
Is the medicines price to
blame?
Are prescribing doctors the
culprits?
Why the state does not pay
suppliers?
Do pharmacists profit too
much?

3. Greek Constitution
Art. 5 para. 5
..All have RIGHT to protection of
their health...
Art. 21 para. 3
..The state takes care of the
health of the citizens and
takes special measures for
the protection of youth, old
age, disability and health care of
the poor...

4. Accessibility & Affordability to
Medicines threatened
Unemployment
Low Income
Price of Medicines
Low financing/high
debts of EOPYY

5. PATIENTS REQUEST An Efficient &
Sustainable Public Health Care System

6. Health of people is wealth of the state
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• Zero copayment for serious chronic & rare disease
• Availability of specialty/expensive medicines through
all hospitals
• Low copayment for complementary indispensable
preparations for serious chronic & rare disease
• Transparency of medicines supply and pricing
• Patient participation in EOF medicines regulator as in
EMA
• Delink employment to social insurance coverage

7. Thank you for your attention
Kathi Apostolidis
Breast Cancer & Patient Rights Advocate
PAIR-Patient Advocates in Research-Society for Participatory Medicine
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