{"id":398947,"date":"2026-01-08T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:00:08","slug":"how-greeces-local-health-units-are-expanding-access-to-healthcare-for-vulnerable-citizens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398947\/","title":{"rendered":"How Greece\u2019s local health units are expanding access to healthcare for vulnerable citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 26\/11\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+1<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     07\/01\/2026 &#8211; 15:01 GMT+1\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>In Giannouli, near Larissa, a Local Health Unit (TOMY) is reshaping access to care for vulnerable residents. Patients like Vasiliki Moustaka, who lives with severe hypoglycemic episodes, rely on the unit for both medical and emotional support. <\/p>\n<p>Staffed by doctors including Dr. Zoi Papanikolaou, TOMY eases pressure on hospitals by offering primary care, referrals and mental-health assistance. <\/p>\n<p>Supported by \u20ac202.5 million from the European Social Fund+, Greece\u2019s 127 TOMY units aim to reduce health inequalities, an effort experts say is essential for fair, universal healthcare across the EU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 26\/11\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 07\/01\/2026 &#8211; 15:01 GMT+1 In Giannouli, near Larissa, a Local Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,3898,137,500,1679],"class_list":{"0":"post-398947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-greece","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-medicine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}