A conversation with Jolanta Meller, coordinator of the 1st Oncology Clinic at the National Cancer Institute in Warsaw.
There are about 1.2 million people living with heart failure in Poland. Many of them struggle with other diseases in addition to this, such as kidney disease and chronic coronary syndrome. Multimorbidity is also a major problem, especially in the elderly. As a result, doctors often face...
At the Senate Health Committee on the topic of vaccinations, an idea was presented to make the fight against mandatory vaccination evasion more effective. The idea is to replace administrative fines with fines. - This is just an idea at the moment," says Health Minister Adam Niedzielski.
- I think it's important to reach young people as close to home as possible. We are working with the Ministry of Education and Science to connect our systems. It turns out that certain activities are departmentally oriented, and we want to create one common center to coordinate them," Deputy...
- Every woman in Poland has the right to terminate her pregnancy in the event of a threat to her health or life, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Monday. Following the tragic events that occurred at the hospital in Nowy Targ, a team is to be established to...
The upcoming session of the Sejm will last from Tuesday to Friday (June 13-16). The agenda includes, among other things, the Law on Quality, the Law on Certain Medical Professions, the Medical Events Compensation Fund and the civic project on in vitro reimbursement.
"The Council of Ministers has adopted a major amendment to the Reimbursement Law," Deputy Health Minister Janusz Cieszynski announced on Twitter. However, a bill on free medicines for children and seniors over the age of 65 was removed from the agenda of the government meeting. - We will be...
In recent years, the annual number of births in Poland has ranged from 297,000 to 366,000, according to a report published by the National Health Fund. Nearly half of the births are by cesarean section.
The government will address today a draft amendment to the Law on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special Dietary Purposes and Medical Devices. This is the so-called "big amendment to the Reimbursement Law."
- Legal solutions are needed to secure the patient's ability to access free vaccination at the pharmacy," said President of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska during the June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The pharmacists' self-government is asking what's...
The Ministry of Health is launching the "For the Health of Poles" campaign. Its goal is to promote solutions that facilitate access to services: including preventive programs, e-health services and myIKP applications.
- In Poland, we do not have access to innovative therapies, even if only long-acting agents, which are already standard in neighboring countries. We also do not have access to subcutaneous therapies. Such therapy dramatically changes the lives of families and the patients themselves, not only for...
The first reading of the civic bill on subsidizing the in vitro method for those struggling with infertility will take place at the next session of the Sejm (15.06.). - We will present our perspective: the perspective of families, people who have been trying for children for a very long time and...
- To avoid recurrence and prolong recovery, adjuvant treatment should be introduced. It not only contributes to prolonging the time without recurrence, but very often even saves patients' lives. This is now the most urgent need, given that such treatment is already being introduced in many other...
- We want to simplify enforcement proceedings targeting parents who fail to meet their children's immunization obligations," Dariusz Poznański, director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, told a June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The ministry plans to amend the law...
Salmonella poisoning occurred in one of the kindergartens in Biała Podlaska (Lublin voivodeship), reports the sanitary inspectorate. One employee of the facility and 14 children were poisoned. Two of them were hospitalized.
The Air Ambulance base in Zegrze Pomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) has resumed seasonal operations. The team will be on duty at the base until September 5.
Warsaw Medical University invites Warsaw residents to a unique event, Diversity x WUM - FESTIVAL OF DIVERSITY, organized by the university's international students.
The Ombudsman is addressing the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection and the director of the Regional Specialized Hospital in Legnica. The issue is the disclosure of the personal data of the ICU patient and the complainant.
More than 600 children aged 12 and 13 have been vaccinated on the first day that the free and unrestricted HPV vaccines were made available, reports Health Minister Adam Niedzielski. There are plenty of free appointments.
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