GHS patients paying €20-plus drug co-payments for fifth month with no quick fix in sight

Around 10,000 patients — most of them elderly — have been paying more than €20 a month in drug co-payments through the General Health System (GHS) for five consecutive months, and a deal reached between the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and pharmaceutical companies offers them no immediate relief.

Marios Kouloumas, honorary president of the Cyprus Federation of Patient Associations (OSAK), told Phileleftheros the situation was urgent. “This is a problem whose solution should have been...