Medical services of the Open Polyclinic of Médecins du Monde

Description

The Open Polyclinic of Doctors of the World operates with the main goal of providing primary health care as well as social and psychological support to people belonging to vulnerable social groups, such as homeless, destitute, uninsured, immigrants without any administrative documents and any other immigrant with limited or zero access to the National Health System. The Open Polyclinic of Doctors of the World throughout the country is in total 8 and operates in Athens (2), Piraeus, Perama, Thessaloniki, Patras, Chania and Kavala. Volunteer doctors of all specialties (physicians, pediatricians, surgeons, gynecologists, dermatologists, cardiologists, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, radiologists, pulmonologists, ENT, psychiatrists, neurologists) provide primary medical care. In addition, there is the possibility for patients to perform free laboratory tests, through referrals to collaborating bodies. After the patients are monitored by the doctors of the Polyclinic, they are given the necessary medicines.