Opposition MP hints big interests of multinational pharmaceuticals behind a recent amendment voted by Greek parliament
Panagiotis Kouroumplis, MP with the Leftist Opposition party SYRIZA in Greece,
claimed that, the minister of health Adonis Georgiadis supported
through a non-paper that multinational pharmaceutical companies would
lose nearly 2.5 billion euros in case of voting in favor of SYRIZA's
proposal.
Specifically,
the parliamentary representative of SYRIZA, speaking at the radio
broadcast of the journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, claimed that, according
to the non-paper the Greek minister of health supported that, if the
parliament would vote SYRIZA's proposal, multinational pharmaceuticals would lose 2.5 billion euros since the prices of drugs
in Greece affect prices in other 19 countries, as Greece is
considered reference country.
Kouroumplis
also stated that the reduction of prices concerns actually only 50 to
100 drugs, not 6,000 as the minister of health claims.
It appears
that big interests play with people's lives in Greece, who already
suffer from the cruel neoliberal policies.
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