Earlier, the Head of Health of SYRIZA-PS Andreas Xanthos stated that the costing and compensation of digital mammography was done by SYRIZA following the initiative of the late Fofi Gennimata.
“Cancer has no party, no color and in such issues, the political forces should be united” the Minister of Health emphasizes in his response to SYRIZA Thanos Plevrison the occasion of a screening program – Fofi Gennimata.
“Today is an important day for public health, as for the first time there is an organized screening program – Fofi Gennimata. So one would expect that party controversies would be left aside, on an issue that concerns the health of millions of women. in SYRIZA, even at this absolutely unifying moment, are trying to oppose by confusing public health policy with massive preventive examinations, with the clinical examinations of EKPY. What is being enacted now is that mammography be performed in the framework of an organized program, which is applied uniformly throughout the population.Cancer has no party or color and in such matters, the political forces should be united “.
The statement of Xanthos
Earlier, the Head of Health of SYRIZA-PS Andreas Xanthos stated that the costing and reimbursement of the digital mammogram was done by SYRIZA following the initiative of the late Fofi Gennimata. He called on the government to stop the communication movements and to start with the real strengthening of the NSS and the primary health for the benefit of the general population.
“Implementing a screening program for breast cancer is undoubtedly a positive step. Because the culture of prevention and health promotion is indeed a structural deficit in the country’s health system. But this necessary step is not done in a vacuum. Free digital mammograms will be performed for the first time. EOPYY) of the EOPYY provides for free preventive mammography “every 2 years in women aged 40-50 years and every year in women over 50 years or in women over 35 years as long as they belong to a high risk group” (Government Gazette 2315 , 19/6/2018) “, pointed out the SYRIZA MP.
“A Screening Program to be National must be universal (and not just for 50-69 year olds), to have continuity, not to be in a vacuum when the funding from the Recovery Fund expires and, above all, to be part of a comprehensive national cancer policy plan that will cover publicly the full range of services, from primary prevention and early diagnosis to easy access to modern treatment regimens and end-stage care. “Such a plan has the institutional responsibility to prepare the National Cancer Institute (EINE) which was legislated by the SYRIZA government and the current government has completely discredited it”, Andreas Xanthos added caustically.
“Let Mr. Mitsotakis’s government deal with the overall policy for Cancer, with the” healing “of the NSS wounds from the pandemic and the brave investment in the public structures and their human resources, and let the big mouths and the pre-election announcements. “The protection of Public Health is a very serious matter to be managed in terms of communication by political forces and politicians who do not believe in the Public Health System, Universal Coverage and Equality in Health.”
