The City of Paris has released 100,000 euros to help eight solidarity pharmacies in Athens and help them cope with the shortage of medicines.
A small gesture of solidarity in an ocean of distress. As the Greeks face an unprecedented shortage of medicines and the financial crisis threatens the country’s hospitals, the city of Paris, bound by a cooperation agreement with Athens, has released funds to help several pharmacies in the region. Hellenic capital.
Solidarity pharmacies
Thus, emergency aid of 100,000 euros has been allocated to Médecins du Monde, which is responsible for supplying medicines to eight solidarity pharmacies in Athens as part of its Greece Solidarity plan, said a communicated of the City of Paris.
Among these eight structures, six are “integrated into the municipal health centers of the City of Athens and provide basic medicines to the most vulnerable Athenians”, explain the authors of the press release.
The other two belong to the NGO Médecins du Monde and “are an integral part of solidarity polyclinics open to all, whose voluntary services have benefited more than 60,000 people last year”. These pharmacies provide free drugs to patients with a medical prescription, the statement said.
Restriction measures
Each center will therefore receive 12,500 euros in order to restock drugs in order to guarantee access to care for the most vulnerable. A decision that comes days after the adoption of an emergency measure by the Greek drug agency, which announced the temporary ban on the export of 73 types of drugs in order to avoid any shortages stemming from the financial restrictions imposed in Greece.
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