Association of People with disabilities. Laconia – a Short guide to question and answer sessions for the access for uninsured individuals in the public health system

D.P. of the Association for Persons with Special Needs. Laconia, with the press no. ref. 46 of 14 June 2016 you informed…
for the right to free access to all public structures of health for the provision of nursing and medical care to uninsured and vulnerable social groups, after the application of law. 4368/2016 and JMD A3(c)/GI/home.25132/4-4-2016. Here then is a short guide published by the ministry, which contains a series of comprehensible question and answer session for the resolution of any queries:
What I qualify as uninsured?
• What, exactly, are entitled and insured persons from the public structures to provide health.
• Free access to primary and secondary structures of health units mental health structures rehabilitation, and university hospitals.
• All nursing and diagnostic acts without any charge.
• Scheduled surgeries without any charge.
• Prevention and promotion of health at no charge.
• Free dental care.
• Free benefits of midwifery care and planning for delivery of Public Hospitals.
• Administration of medication from private and public pharmacies.
• Physical therapy, ‘ve had speech therapy sessions, εργοθεραπείες, psychotherapies and operations special education.
• Administration of medical devices and consumables materials.
How do I qualify for the benefits?
• If you are a Greek citizen or stay legally in Greece, you’re addressing all of the public structures with your SOCIAL security number.
• If you don’t live legally in Greece but you belong to a vulnerable group which needs immediate health care coverage (pregnant, children, chronic, disabled, mentally ill, etc.) you are entitled to the Healthcare Card of an Alien with which you will have access to Public Structures Health.
• All people, irrespective of their legal status, they are still entitled to access to Emergency Departments.
• No man shall be examined by any committee of a hospital in order to be approved for access to the Public Health System.
Where to apply to?
• If you have a SOCIAL security number in all public structures for health are required to ensure directly full access to their services.
• If you don’t have SOCIAL security numbers or legal documents of residence, but do you belong to any vulnerable population group.33 of 4368/2016), at the Offices of Protection of Rights or in the Administrative Services of the Hospital which will inform you how you can get the Healthcare Card.
Who is affected by the setting?
• 2.5 million uninsured citizens.
• Those who due to crisis they lost their insurance, even if they are in debt to the insurance agencies.
• Those who reside legally in the country.
• Those who do not have legal documents of residence, but are in need of immediate health care as members of vulnerable social groups (e.x. minors, pregnant women, people with disabilities, τοξικοεξαρτημένοι, homeless, etc.).
What you need to pay?
• You don’t have to pay absolutely nothing for the whole of nursing and diagnostic instruments provided for in the regulation.
• You don’t have to pay anything if you’re exempt holdings due to more specific provisions.
• You don’t have to pay nothing for outpatient treatments, vaccinations and prevention.
• You have the same interests that they have and the insured in pharmaceutical expenditure, except if you fit in any of the income, clinical and social exceptions of the CMD, so again you have zero participation.
Where can I find more information?
You can appeal to the Administrative Departments of Hospitals and of Units of PHC, on Welfare Services of the Municipalities, in all of the Primary Structures of Health, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity and IDIKA”.
With price, the D.P. of the Association for Persons with Special Needs, Prefecture of Laconia