Friday, March 30, 2012

Excluded the PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL




In a two-hour blockade of funds of the outpatient clinic of the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki (PS.N.TH.) went from 8.30 am members P.A.ME.Health, to protest the imposition of the 5 euro ticket, valid for examinations at all hospitals around the country.


As stated by the strain of P.A.ME.Health psychiatrist Elias Kondylis, patients sent to PS.N.TH. are chronically ill and to get a license needed for a disability pension which the sponsors would have to pay 5 euros for examination by a psychiatrist and 7 million, to be examined by a psychologist. "These figures are prohibitive for one years sick person who receives a pension from 200 to 220 euros. There are sick they do change and go, why not pay, "said Kondylis. While he pointed out that the decision of the commander PS.N.TH. only for prescription drugs cheaper, can be reduced pharmaceutical expenditure by 40%, but many psychiatric patients taking many years a particular drug relapsed after replacement of the preparation that they received a cheaper one. 

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