Greek PM says free evening surgeries to start November 28

A total of 37,000 free evening surgeries will start being performed in hospitals from November 28, using funding from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday addressing the parliament plenary during the debate on a draft law aiming to revise the Greek public health sector.

“We are promoting the evening surgeries. A process that was announced in 2017 but nothing had been done. We have now created a single list so that it can be monitored by the state and society … starting from our fellow citizens who have waited longer to get surgery,” he said. 

The plan aims to speed up services to patients on waiting lists for regular surgeries at the National Health Service (ESY).

Mitsotakis also noted the importance of the personal doctor. “He is primarily the one who will update and monitor the digital patient record that we will all soon have,” he said. “I believe that it has no precedent in the history of the national health system, therefore it requires time and great perseverance in its execution. Undoubtedly, however, it is a project that is implemented day by day.”

“The draft law we are discussing is part of a stable path that upgrades public health by serving three central goals: extensive prevention, organisation of primary care, renovation of 93 hospitals and 156 health centres,” he said.

Source: ekathimerini.com