The Ombudsman draws attention to the need to build drug security, including strengthening drug production in the country and publishing a list of critical medicines. Marcin Wiącek has addressed Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and Development and Technology Minister Krzysztof Hetman on the issue.
The list of critical medicinal products, published by the European Commission together with the European Medicines Agency and the heads of member states' drug agencies, contains 200 active substances used in medicines considered critical to health systems across the European Union, for which continuity of supply must be guaranteed to avoid shortages.
Inclusion on the list means that preventing shortages of these drugs is particularly important, as they can cause significant harm to patients and pose serious challenges to health care systems. A drug...
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