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A plan to subsidise travel, accommodation and food expenses for patient escorts abroad will be submitted to the Council of Ministers tomorrow, Government Spokesman Constantinos Letibiotis said today.
In a statement to journalists at the Presidential Palace, as part of his media briefing, the Spokesman said: "The Government is working on solutions to the serious economic and social problems faced by the families of subsidized patients who go abroad for treatment."
In the first phase, as President Christodoulides has announced, the Ministry of Health will submit, at tomorrow's Cabinet meeting, a plan to subsidize the costs of travel, accommodation and food for accompanying patients abroad. This is a request by organised patients, which has been pending for years and which the government considers to be fair and justified.
The long-term goal remains to upgrade health services to such an extent that the need to send patients abroad only for specialised treatments is reduced.
Sending patients to specialised centres abroad is mainly done through the country's National Health System.
The Ministry of Health has developed a wide network of partnerships with leading University Reference Hospitals abroad, which is activated for the immediate transfer to these centres of cases that cannot be treated in Cyprus."
Asked if the Project has been costed Spokesman referred to the Minister of Health, who will present the proposal before the Council of Ministers tomorrow.
(PM/NYAN/MS)
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