Patients still paying out of pocket for occupational therapy under GHS

Nearly seven years, two governments, five health ministers, three different directors and two different presidents at the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), one professional association, and endless consultation. Patients, most of them children, are still paying out of their own pockets to secure occupational therapy services.

“It’s time to speak with the language of truth,” Charalambos Papadopoulos, secretary of the Federation of Patients’ Associations of Cyprus (OSAK), told Phileleftheros...