EOPY: Free delivery of expensive drugs begins at home – What diseases it concerns

Patients of five serious chronic diseases, who are insured to , are expected to receive their expensive at home from next week. Without unnecessary inconvenience and standing in the queues of OOPY’s pharmacies, insured persons who suffer from severe chronic diseases and receive High Cost Medicines (SMEs). Beneficiaries are for starters, those suffering from cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, thalassemia (mediterranean anemia), sickle cell anemia and motor neuron disease. The aim of the Ministry of Health and Management of EOPY is to extend to all patients receiving medicines from the OOPY Pharmacy until the end of the year. Speaking at iatropedia.gr, the EOPYO Commander, Theano Carpodine points out that the delivery of drugs at home was a government commitment: “It will improve the immediate access of patients to their treatments, without inconvenience. It was a commitment of the Prime Minister and very high on the agenda of the new Minister of Health, Adoni Georgiades, and that is why he runs pilotly for about 2,000 patients, aiming at the end of the year, this possibility for all patients served by the OOPYS Pharmacy, if they so wish.” What the home drug delivery program includes The insured will receive their medicines at home through courier services, completely free of charge. The process of electronic prescription will be preceded in collaboration with the physician. The pilot project starts with the adaptation of the systems of the electronic prescription of the EDDIA from next week. The insured will have the option of choosing ‘home delivery’ for their medications, or that of receiving from OOPY’s Pharmacy. Speaking recently at the opening of the new OOPY Pharmacy in Agia Paraskevi, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis made it clear that the OOPY Pharmacy is not going to be closed, ending the scenarios that have been moving in recent times, that the PhYK will move to private pharmacies. Now only with the activation of intangible prescriptions on the platform of EDICIA, patients can carry out the shipment of medicines to the house without unnecessary inconvenience, within 2 to 5 working days of the date of execution of the prescription. See the entire procedure for sending medicines to the home step-by-step After the patient declares that he wishes to receive the medicinal products at home, the patient then enters the respective application of the EOPY for the shipment of medicinal products at home, providing the necessary consents and the necessary information for the shipment, in compliance with the provisions for the protection of personal data. Following finalisation of the patient’s request, through the application of the EEAY, for the dispatch of the medicinal products of this particular prescription at home, the prescription will be bound and can now only be performed through the relevant application. In case of a repeated prescription being issued, the finalisation process will be repeated every month by the patient. The recipe to be performed appears in a special application of the National Health Services Agency, controlled by the Agency’s pharmacists (Pharmaceia and E.O.P. Pharmaceuticals). Y.Y.) and is executed in accordance with the legislation in force. Otherwise, the patient is informed by e-mail on a summary basis. Two-month prescriptions and prescriptions that may contain more than one preparation may be performed provided that those preparations are included in the table. Monitoring for the dispatch of medicinal products at home The delivery time of the medicinal products at home will range from 2 to 5 working days from the date of execution of the prescription depending on the maintenance conditions of the medicinal product and the final destination, without prejudice to any delays due to holidays, shipments to inaccessible or remote areas, exceptional weather conditions, strikes and any other force majeure. The delivery will be done through a postal company registered on the Register of Postal Undertakings of the National Telecommunications and Post Offices Committee for the provision of courier services or through a certified drug/pharmacies distribution company. Monitoring of the shipment of the medicinal product by the EOPY may take place online (on line) through the unique number of the consignment’s proof, which is linked to the medical prescription or through any other cadet way of deciding and applied by the EOPYY. Delivery to the recipient will be completed by means of a receipt confirmation code, which will be sent electronically to the recipient by the company. By Janna Soulaki / Source: iatropedia.gr