They talked to the Health Insurance Organization and now the pharmacists are waiting for the answer of the Minister of Health, who are demanding the transfer of flu vaccinations from the doctors' offices of personal doctors to their pharmacies.
The Pancyprian Pharmaceutical Association has already held a meeting with the Health Insurance Organization, which, as we are informed, seems to accept the transfer of vaccinations to private pharmacies and declares that it is ready to proceed with the necessary adjustments to the GHS software.
The issue, of course, falls more within the competence of the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for securing and distributing flu vaccines (as well as all vaccines) to citizens.
Therefore, in order to be satisfied, the request of the PFS must go through the approval of the Ministry of Health, which of course will also answer whether it accepts to assume the cost of compensating pharmacists for this service.
"After our meeting with the HIO and after the Organization presented itself ready to proceed with the necessary arrangements within the System to make vaccination from private pharmacies procedurally possible, we turned to the Minister of Health," the president of the PFS, Plutarchos Georgiadis, told "F".
The most important thing "at the moment", said Mr. Georgiadis, "is that there is no more delay because if we do not catch up with the time, it means that we will not even be able to get the flu vaccinations that start in the fall."
In order for vaccinations to be transferred to private pharmacies, he explained, "the decision must first be made by the Ministry of Health and then the necessary procedures must be promoted. We have time at our disposal at the moment, but as long as the meeting with the Minister of Health is delayed, the margins are narrowing because there must be preparation from both us and the HIO."
It is recalled that pharmacists have been asking for years to be granted the right to vaccinate citizens for the flu in their pharmacies, citing similar practices that have been applied for decades in other European countries.
