With the aim of reducing the suffering of patients taking high -cost drugs (PEK) begins tomorrow, Monday, June 16th, their home distribution, With EOPYY Be the first insurance agency to provide the High -Cost Drug Shipment Service to Europe.
Today more than 120,000 patients with serious diseases visit EOPYY pharmacies per month to obtain high -cost drugs. Sometimes waiting in tails or traveling a long distance.
The new service of EOPYY For home distribution of high -cost drugs it comes to facilitate the daily lives of these patients. The “home” Delivery Service was put into pilot last spring, serving patients suffering from specific diseases, and now enters the universal application phase, covering all patients who perform such recipes.
The “home” mission of drugs is about 139,000 patients visiting EOPYY pharmacies on a monthly or bi -monthly basis.
“72% of our fellow citizens are in Athens and Thessaloniki, and 41% of them have chronic diseases, which means that their daily lives are already burdened. In this way, not only do the drugs reach the door The patient but we improve his daily life, the quality of his life, we reduce the hassle and help him to have the medication important in time to comply with his treatment. We take care of the patient, we strengthen the family and their carers, “said EOPYY President Theano Karpodini.
He notes that there is no exception to any condition, “except for some of the medicines that are abroad, those available through IFET and do not have a marketing permit in Europe, so they will not be available for” home “traditions. And in this case, however, there is a provision and will be made on a special order in the name of the patient. “
What should the patient do to take his or her home medication
Each patient can now, if he wishes, without any burden, take his medicines, whether he is a cold chain (refrigerator) or not, at home, office, or even his cottage during the summer months, within 24 to 48 hours depending on the distance.
All it takes is to have an electronic recipe, intangible opinion and to have activated the “home” shipping service via the EOPYY platform (https://www.eopyy.gov.gr/).
Also, the “home” mission medicines that patients wish are able to take them home or authorize someone else to pick them up on their behalf.
The prescriptions are controlled and executed by pharmacists, while the drugs are trained by a certified company.
Step by step the process
The first way is to enter the EOPYY website (https://www.eopyy.gov.gr/) where they choose high -cost drugs. What they need is to have their AMKA and their VAT.
Then step by step they certify their phone, mobile or fixed, their e-mail and especially the address and type the recipe number they want to receive “home”.
If one cannot to enter the platform then he may call the call center of EOPYY (2108110500) and the new call center, Call Center in 18181 and with the help of the organization’s people to make its application electronically by giving the VAT and AMKA to confirm. The data is automatically confirmed in the system and so with the help of employees they can make their request without having to access themselves.
The patient has the ability to trace and access in all phases of his recipe and will be a message. Once a request for a “home” delivery is submitted, this recipe number will not be executed at the pharmacy because its mission will be launched. Time is from 24-48 hours depending on the distance.
“Shipping high -cost ‘home’ drugs is an extremely complex process with too many variables and quite complex aspects of interoperability. With our people at EOPYY and our external partners we have tried, and we believe that we have managed, to create an extremely friendly, an easy -to -use request for patients to say they want to make use of our platform, “says Ms. Karpodini and concludes:
“In EOPYY we make it easier for those who are already giving their own daily struggle and constantly striving for a health system that stands next to the citizen.
For us at EOPYY, our patient is and will continue to be a priority.
As a modern and effective organization, we focus methodically, consistently and always on its optimal service. Every day, we defend the public interest, strengthen the patient, create social goodwill for the public health system. “