The 2nd KAPI Galatsi visited today, Friday, the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, accompanied by the Mayor of Galatsi Giorgos Markopoulos. The visit was made for the official start of the Preventive Examinations Action in municipal KAPI.

The new action of the Ministry of Health is part of the National Public Health Prevention Program “Spyros Doxiadis” and will be extended, in the next period, to all the health units of the country. Once a month, teams of doctors and nurses will visit the municipal health care centers in order to carry out free preventive examinations (blood, heart test, blood pressure, etc.) to all interested parties, while there will be the possibility of prescribing medicines and regular monitoring with the aim of properly regulating their medication.

After the visit, Mr. Georgiadis made the following statement:

“I want to thank the medical teams participating in this program, which really helps a large portion of our fellow citizens. The purpose of the Ministry of Health and the National Health System is to make their lives as easy as possible and at the same time to protect their health. Preventive examinations, especially at these ages, are absolutely necessary. So, we decided to make this program. Today it starts here, but it will be extended to all health districts. The neighboring Health Centers, once a month, will send medical teams to perform blood tests and to do prescription to those KAPI beneficiaries who wish to do so. We want them to have as little inconvenience as possible and at the same time, because we all neglect our health a little bit, to have an incentive to be more careful. Because no matter what, if you see the doctor in front of you with a smile, you might do something that you would otherwise have neglected or done later. This action of ours is supplementary to the great action of the Ministry of Health which is the “Spyros Doxiadis” program that we did with Mrs. Irini Agapidakis. In a few dayswill come to the mobile phones of almost 6 million Greeks, SMS so they can do for free preventive examinations for cardiovascular and brain diseases. Those who take the exam, the results will automatically be entered into the platform and a risk factor will be output based on the results. If you are high in this risk, the system will automatically take you to the second round of tests and even if you are high there, you will be treated in a hospital. The Ministry of Health is here and will help as much as it can.”

In the 2nd KAPI Galatsiou Adonis Georgiadis

The Mayor of Galatsi, Giorgos Markopoulos said in his turn:

“When we opened KAPI, the first request of the beneficiaries here was that they would like to have an examination by specialized doctors and a prescription once a month. I informed the Minister and he immediately agreed. As you can see, he kept his word and a very big effort is starting from here today in Galatsi, which will be extended throughout Greece”.