The Ministry of National Defence announced that the new Presidential Decree (P.D.) No 62/2023 has been signed and it enters into force. The decree regards the medical treatment of the Armed Forces and the Port Police-Hellenic Coastguard personnel, as well as of their family members, substituting the respective P.D. 432/1983 and 169/2004.
The revision of the legislation so far in force comes with several benefits for the Armed Forces manpower, the members of the Port Police-Hellenic Coast Guard, as well as for their families. Indicatively the following are mentioned:
-Updating of allowances regarding the purchase of weak hearing-aids and eyeglasses.
-An allowance grant for eye glasses for their family members.
-Equalization of childbirth allowance for officers and NCOs.
-Increase of the increment percentage of the childbirth allowance in multiple-birth pregnancy.
-Removal of the restriction of the 21st year of age concerning disabled children with regard to the grant of an allowance for their education.
-Inclusion of the air treatment allowance to the acknowledged expenditures of medical treatment.
-Expenditures of special cases of medical treatment are explicitly referred to the Greek National Organisation for the Provision of Health Services.
-Expansion of the implementation of the Electronic Prescription System for the provision of health services.
-Enactment of a calculation system of health expenditures in contracted clinics, based on Diagnosis-related Groups.
The Deputy Minister of National Defence Mr. Nikolaos Hardalias, whose competence includes the medical policy of the Armed Forces, made the following statement regarding the new P.D. entering into effect:
“I would like to express my satisfaction for the promulgation of P.D. 62/2023, regarding the medical treatment of the personnel of the Armed Forces and the Port Police-Hellenic Coast Guard, as well as of their family members. This law, which is a product of many years of systematic process and close coordination among the General Staffs, upgrades the framework for providing medical services to our personnel, aligns the existing provisions with the general legislation, and restores a series of injustices and distortions of the previous regime. The medical care in favour of the personnel is one of the top priorities of the political leadership of the Ministry of National Defence”.
