Extremely interesting and optimistic mobility in the field of Health and not only… | Liberal

The mobility that has been noticed within the Well being sector in our nation in latest weeks is attention-grabbing. The newest of the optimistic developments issues the approval by the Council of Ministers of the plan to cowl the prices of transportation and lodging/meals for sufferers who go for therapy overseas and considered one of their companions, assuming, in fact, that the incidents in query can’t be handled in Cyprus .

It’s a honest and everlasting demand of the sufferers and society generally which is absolutely glad. Along with the simple help that this regulation provides to folks with critical well being issues and their households, it’s equally important to acknowledge in apply on the a part of the state that the care we’ve got to supply to sufferers doesn’t finish at discharge from hospital or the administration of medicine therapy and should require long-term care and rehabilitation companies for some sufferers, particularly these residing with advanced, multifactorial and multisystemic ailments.

This philosophy of holistic administration of the calls for created by such ailments additionally permeates the payments for the operation of Rehabilitation Facilities. In actual fact, 2024 will likely be essential for the passing of many essential items of laws that can body the NHS, with the goal of additional strengthening it, and can sign whether or not or not the commitments to improve well being companies, of which he’s a staunch supporter, will likely be fulfilled or not. the President of the Republic, Mr. Christodoulidis.

We heard from the mouth of the present Minister of Well being, Mr. Michalis Damianou in addition to from the Normal Director of the Ministry, Ms. Christina Giannakis, how excessive within the priorities of the Ministry is the intention of payments, such because the Affected person Advocate, College Clinics, and Radiodiagnostic Facilities and Medical Laboratories, amongst others, the session round which has moved at a hopelessly sluggish tempo in earlier years, which might be interpreted in varied methods.

It’s optimistic that steps are being taken, as I study, additionally with regard to the creation of a Nationwide Middle for Medical Documentation, from the basic points of the broader reform of the Well being sector which, as I’ve underlined many instances, I firmly consider will contribute decisively to the advance and assurance of high quality of obtainable well being companies, private and non-private.

On the similar time, the federal government's cooperation with the EU emerges as an element of utmost significance for the utilization and implementation of a mess of up to date Well being insurance policies on the nationwide degree. From the upcoming assessment of outdated EU pharmaceutical laws, the brand new Blood, Tissue and Cell Regulation (SoHO Regulation) and the Well being Know-how Evaluation Regulation (HTA Regulation), to the European Well being Information House ) and the Medical Trials Regulation, Europe is making an unprecedented reform effort to modernize Well being, which “generates” many alternatives for Cyprus as properly.

It’s crucial that our nation succeeds in aligning with these speaking insurance policies and integrating them as successfully as potential into nationwide situations and wishes to supply extra speedy, higher high quality, and simpler care to all sufferers. Understanding the significance that the federal government and the President himself connect to strengthening the human-centered and common character of Well being, I stay optimistic concerning the profitable consequence of all the above in a brief time frame.

And let me be aware that the invaluable progress recorded each in scientific and medical analysis and within the well being insurance policies being promoted, along with being steadily translated into tangible advantages for sufferers and society, can be a ray of sunshine within the shadows of geopolitical crises, worsening local weather change, challenges to the financial system and different tough conditions that concern humanity as an entire.

*BSC, MSc, PhDExecutive Director of the Worldwide Thalassemia FederationPresident of the Nationwide Thalassemia Committee