{"id":16322,"date":"2013-02-28T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/grecia-la-crisi-non-ha-medicina\/"},"modified":"2013-02-28T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:30:00","slug":"grecia-la-crisi-non-ha-medicina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/grecia-la-crisi-non-ha-medicina\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, the crisis has no medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long lines of people in front of pharmacies throughout Greece for fear of running out of medicines: there were many panic scenes on February 27, with citizens ready to snatch the last medicine available in the shop from their hands.
Pharmaceutical companies, in fact, have significantly reduced or, in some cases, completely stopped the delivery of medicines to Greek hospitals: the cause is the economic crisis that led the country to default in recent months.
"The companies are cutting off supplies because Greece can no longer be considered a market capable of giving them profits," he explained to the <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/span>Yannis Tountas, president of the National Medicines Organization.
THE LOWEST PRICES IN EUROPE.<\/b> The prices of medicines in Greece are in fact much lower than in the rest of Europe, reaching less than 20%.
\u201cPharmaceutical companies are concerned that their products once sold in Greece could be exported by sellers in other countries through an alternative and bad for business market,\u201d Tountas continued.
What made the vase overflow were the huge debts that the Greek national system owes to companies supplying medicines.
THE PREVIOUS IN 2011.<\/b> It is not the first time that Athens has faced this problem: in June 2011, pharmacies blocked the free distribution of anti-tumor medicines<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and last November they called a general strike in protest at the new law which provides for a further reduction of price of medicines<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The heavy debts in the health sector<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nLunghe file di persone davanti alle farmacie di tutta la Grecia per paura di restare senza medicinali: sono state tante le scene di panico il 27 febbraio, con i cittadini pronti a strapparsi di mano l’ultima medicina disponibile in negozio. Le case farmaceutiche, infatti, hanno ridotto notevolmente o, in alcuni casi, interrotto del tutto, la …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}