The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) on Wednesday announced that it is lending its support to the “Health for All” action plan, designed to provide primary health and welfare services to vulnerable population groups. Athens University Rector Athanassios Dimopoulos will be on the programme’s central committee.
The goals of the action plan are to enhance the way in which activities by related agencies involved in providing care to vulnerable population groups supplement each other. It is aimed at the most at-risk populations, such as Roma gypsies, Pomaks and residents of mountainous Thrace, refugees, the very poor and the uninsured, seeking to facilitate their integration into the social and economic fabric and to provide access to health and welfare services.
Among others, it provides clinical examination and vaccinations for children, gynaecological exams, screening for heart disease and other health problems for adults and referral of cases requiring further care to healthcare units.
More than 100 university and Greek national health service doctors volunteer in the programme, in addition to 40 scientific bodies. The “Health for All” programme is under the aegis of the Greek ministries for health and welfare, the vaccinations committee, the UNESCO chair in Adolescent Health Care and the Central Health Council.
The chairman of the programme’s scientific committee is Athens University Paediatrics Prof. Georgios Chrousos, with Eleni Sotiropoulou, Sofia Kalantaridou, Eleftherios Thireos and Efi Koukkou serving as coordinators.
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