EU Health ministers' informal meeting at Zappeio

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis had an informal meeting with his German counterpart Hermann Grohe at Zappeio.

After the meeting, Georgiadis said that “with Germany's help, we have managed all that time to plan the whole programme of the reforms in the Greek health sector.” adding that “Upon its conclusion we anticipate that we will offer Greek citizens better health services compared to the past, at less cost and with respect for the Greek people’s money.”

He also said that “We wouldn’t have been able to do this without German health professionals’ help or the support of the German Health ministry, which has been on our side in every step.”.
 
Mr. Grohe said that the conversation and the briefing were interesting and pointed out that “we must and we do try to secure high quality health services for a country’s economic and social development. I am impressed with the confidence the Greek government shows in implementing the necessary reforms.”

He continued saying that “We support and we want citizens to experience soon these changes in their daily lives. We cooperate closely to improve health services and the successful efforts already underway will continue. We also support the effort to offer all citizens, even the unsecured ones, full access to the health system”. 

However, he stressed this involves that “all health services entities -- hospitals, departments, doctors and all employees -- can and should contribute to bringing these services to the citizen.” and he concluded that “The upgrading of health services is, in our opinion, the most important of all the things we do.”.