In addition to the 45 General Practitioners and 30 doctors of the State Health Services Organization, they have expressed interest in participating in the AstraZeneca vaccination effort to beneficiaries over XNUMX years of age.
The distribution of the vaccines has started since yesterday, while so far a total of 16 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have been ordered by the Personal Physicians.
In addition, a number of Medical Centers expressed interest, stating that their staff is available.
As Margarita Kyriakou, the Press Officer of the Ministry of Health, stated to KYPE, the Ministry started sending doses of vaccines to Personal Physicians yesterday, to note that Personal Physicians are responsible for arranging the appointments of the beneficiaries themselves.
He added that the beneficiaries will be the registered patients of the Personal Doctors who will participate.
"Each doctor who participates will make his schedule and will schedule his appointments as he thinks," said Ms. Kyriakou.
In addition, he said that every doctor who will participate should inform his beneficiaries and make an appointment if they wish.
It is noted that for each vaccine that will be granted, a compensation of 10 euros will be given.