The Patient Ombudsman and the director of the Center for Monitoring Quality in Health Care inaugurated in Gdansk a social campaign called "Demand Quality," aimed at patients.
On World AIDS Day, the Ministry of Health reminds people about anonymous and free HIV testing. They can be performed at Consultation and Diagnostic Points throughout Poland. HIV infection can be symptomless for a long time. If it is detected, the development of AIDS can be effectively prevented.
This year, the Forum of Palliative Medicine, organized by the Polish Society of Palliative Medicine, was held for the 8th time. During the debate, experts discussed the abolition of capping of palliative and hospice care services, the situation of hospices run by non-governmental organizations,...
The grand opening of the modernized Department of General, Functional and Oncological Urology at WIM-PIB took place last Thursday. The total cost of the renovation was more than 27 million zlotys.
- In the case of preventive examinations, mammography and cytology, we are again dealing with dualism very characteristic of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund. The assumptions are good, but they don't stand up to a clash with reality," says the president of the Regional Medical...
The results of medical tests of tens of thousands of Polish women and men have been exposed by hackers, reports trustanatrzeciastrona.pl. Hackers broke into the website of one of Poland's largest medical laboratory networks.
The Supreme Audit Office negatively assessed the handling of infectious medical waste, including that generated in connection with COVID-19, in 2019-2022 (Q1). During the audit period, it was stored, received and managed in contravention of regulations. Neither hospitals nor public administration...
The Ombudsman's Office received a complaint about the unavailability of flu vaccine. The woman reporting it could not get a second dose of the product after vaccinating her child with the first dose. The Ombudsman is intervening with the Ministry of Health.
Wciąż nierozwiązana pozostaje sprawa obciążeń finansowych związanych z tzw. nienależną refundacją preparatów mlekozastępczych przepisywanych niemowlętom – przypomina Naczelna Izba Lekarska. Rezygnacja z tych kar była Jednym z postulatów w ramach „siódemki NIL”.
The information and education activities of public authorities in the fight against the phenomenon of "childgrooming" appear to be insufficient, according to the Ombudsman. According to research, gaining a child's trust through the Internet for the purpose of sexual exploitation is becoming a...
Innovative medications for patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, microscopic colitis, and coping with difficult emotions in the disease - these are just some of the topics of open lectures by doctors and a psychologist to be heard on Saturday at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease...
How to recognize that a child is being abused, who the perpetrators are, what their mechanism of action is, how a parent should react - this is what Justyna Kotowska, psychologist, psychotherapist, deputy chairman of the commission against sexual abuse of minors under 15, talks about.
During the pandemic, families in crisis received the necessary assistance, although it was most often in the form of ad hoc interventions, the Supreme Audit Institution assesses in its latest report. The auditors admit that such a course of action was justified by the emergency situation, but the...
Doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement appeal to wear masks in clinics. - First of all, they can save lives, and secondly, they can prevent paralysis in health care, which no patient would want to go through again. Let's remember: a sick doctor is... no doctor! A sick nurse is... no...
St. Family Specialized Hospital celebrated World Prematurity Day (17.11.) with children born prematurely at the facility. They were accompanied by their families, medical staff involved in the process of caring for premature babies and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska.
Development and Technology Minister Waldemar Buda has signed an agreement that relieves the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw of a debt of PLN 25.5 million. The institute is a specialized facility that provides assistance to patients from all over Poland.
The National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians has commented on the draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the operation of treatment entities providing care for alcohol addicts, which has been submitted for public consultation. The purpose of the draft is to define the scope of...
A team of electrophysiologists from the Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the National Institute of Cardiology (NIKard) performed the first implantation of an extravascular cardioverter defibrillator (EV-ICD) in Poland on Tuesday (14.11.). The device was implanted in a 43-year-old patient with...
The queue for a normal MRI scan averages 80 days and is 22 days longer than in October 2021. In addition, patients wait 27 days for a description of the scan. This is one week longer than two years ago. The waiting time for a CT scan with a description has increased slightly. In 2021 it was 51...
W czasie trwania stanu epidemii spowodowanej zakażeniami SARS-CoV-2, Rzecznik Praw Pacjenta spotykał się z praktyką stosowaną w niektórych szpitalach polegającą na odgórnym i przymusowym rozdzielaniu matek od ich nowonarodzonych dzieci. Oddzielenie miało miejsce u matek, u których stwierdzono...
© 2023 Medexpress. All Rights Reserved
