- For parents, the possibility of vaccinating their children in schools is a great convenience, a convenience. I encourage parents to contact school principals, teachers and the health inspection," said Chief Sanitary Inspector Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski in an interview with Medexpress during the...
- Only 6 percent of Polish children in the first years of elementary school are fit. And I'm not talking about physical activity, just the ability to do basic physical exercises. Then these kids don't want to exercise in PE classes. This is a problem that is very difficult to solve, but it's a...
Epidemiological surveillance is one of the main sources of information on the incidence of notifiable and registerable infectious diseases, including invasive bacterial diseases, emphasize the participants of the conference "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland...
18 września 2023 r. Trybunał Konstytucyjny orzekł w sprawie przepisów dotyczących zakazów koncentracyjnych w prowadzeniu aptek ogólnodostępnych. Mimo że Trybunał uznał, iż procedura zmiany ustawy była niezgodna z Konstytucją, przepisy dotyczące zakazów koncentracyjnych i sankcji pozostają w mocy...
Prof. Milosz Parczewski, national consultant in infectious diseases, Prof. Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz, national consultant in epidemiology, and Dr. n. med. Pawel Grzesiowski, Chief Sanitary Inspector, present recommendations on immunization in disaster areas.
The first medical facilities awarded under the "Require Quality" project, initiated by the Patient Ombudsman and the Center for Monitoring Quality in Health Care, have been announced.
The beginning of the school year is a good time to check your child's vision. How to recognize that a child sees worse and what is the prevention of myopia, says Joanna Przeździecka-Dołyk, MD, Department and Clinic of Ophthalmology, Wroclaw University of Medical Sciences, in an interview with...
- Cardiovascular diseases are a very serious problem, not only in Poland, but throughout the European Union. In Poland, in people under 65, these diseases are still responsible for the largest number of deaths. We have some progress, as life expectancy has lengthened over the past two decades. In...
- It should be recognized that dentists share responsibility for this one of the biggest problems in modern medicine, according to the authors of the Recommendation of the Working Group of the Polish Dental Society and the National Antibiotic Program on the Use of Antibiotics in Dentistry. At...
The National Union of Physicians is taking further steps to introduce standards for minimum employment of specialist physicians in public medical institutions. The aim of these measures is to guarantee a minimum level of specialist medical care security per number of patients, rather than per...
- An anxious patient can be transformed into a cooperative patient who will then be treated in a standardized manner. These techniques are not just reserved for children and adolescents. They can and should also be implemented for adult people who are so afraid of the dentist that they...
- The situation related to the operation of primary health care, pharmacies and hospitals is very difficult. We are in constant contact with the governors. We try to have full knowledge of what the situation of emergency services is like. We have also discussed the possibility of air ambulance...
Prof. Ewa Wender-Ożegowska, MD, has become a national consultant in obstetrics and gynecology. Since 1983, she has been professionally affiliated with the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Hospital of the Poznan University of Medical Sciences, where she simultaneously teaches in the Department...
Does the Health Minister want to test deliveries in ambulances? That's one of the questions raised during this session of the Sejm, specifically - during the deliberations of the Parliamentary Group on Local Government Hospitals, which on Wednesday dealt with plans for changes in hospitality. On...
- One-third of children and adolescents are in what is known as complete immobility, meaning they do not do any physical activity. According to a WHO report, in order for a child to develop well from an early age, a minimum of one hour of physical activity a day is needed," said Deputy Sports...
Po niespełna dwudziestu minutach posiedzenia Komisje Zdrowia oraz Finansów Publicznych podjęły w czwartek decyzję o ponownym skierowaniu do rozpatrzenia przez podkomisję obywatelskiego projektu nowelizacji ustawy o minimalnym wynagrodzeniu pracowników ochrony zdrowia.
- We messed up our children's world and now we have to fix it quickly. There is no time to spread this out over 10 years. This should be an absolute priority in Poland, also in the context of our presidency of the European Union," said Anna Partyka-Opiela, a partner in the law firm Rymarz, Zdort,...
- Vaccination in schools is certainly a good thing, too. It's good that principals don't hinder this, that they recommend vaccinations and give the green light to conduct vaccinations," said Professor Teresa Jackowska, president of the Polish Pediatric Society, in an interview with Medexpress...
6,651 residency spots in the qualifying procedure that will begin on October 1, 2024 - as many as 4,242 have been allocated to priority specialties.
After a year and a half of intensive analysis, meetings with the authorities, the Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA) and representatives of the academic community, the audit of medical faculties at Polish universities has come to an end, reports Sebastian Goncerz, chairman of the OZZL...
- Unfortunately, we most often meet the patient only at the stage of illness, and even more often when there are already complications in the form of a heart attack, stroke or other serious conditions, sometimes leading to disability. It is important that we meet the patient more often at the...
Patients with rare diseases and their caregivers are anxiously awaiting the full implementation of the National Plan for Rare Diseases, which was supposed to provide better care and access to modern therapies. Although the plan was adopted by the government in August 2021, many of its key points...
Dr hab. n. med. Michał Brzeziński z Katedry i Kliniki Pediatrii, Gastroenterologii, Alergologii i Żywienia Dzieci GUMed alarmuje, że świadomie zmierzamy w kierunku zdrowotnej katastrofy. Jego zdaniem konieczna jest wielowymiarowa strategia, która obejmuje edukację zdrowotną, zmianę nawyków...
Prof. Piotr Galecki, national consultant in psychiatry, spoke about the need to expand access to a treatment program for depression during the Economic Forum in Karpacz on September 3. Depression is currently the leading cause of disability and incapacity worldwide.
Due to the declining number of births in Poland, the Health Ministry is considering the possibility of closing delivery wards that do not meet certain criteria for the number of births. According to the draft regulation, smaller medical centers with fewer than 30 births per month and fewer than...
People, get out of the way, because the letter carrier is coming. Heavy with letters is the mailman's bag today.... In recent weeks, the Chancellery of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has received several thousand greeting cards from the cardboard nurse Ania, referring to the symbolic figure...
After Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna accepted the resignation of Malgorzata Lorek from her position as director of the National Blood Center, the health ministry announced that Sebastian Twaróg, the current deputy director, will take over as director of the National Blood Center starting...
Nutrition awareness certainly requires not only prevention, educational activities, but also the introduction of nutritional and dietary advice into the basket of guaranteed services, both for children with chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and overweight, as well as for parents of...
There will be meetings with hospital directors and local government officials in the various provinces, the promise was heard from representatives of the OZPSzP, who spoke with Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and her colleagues for three hours on Monday. The meetings are to concern, of course,...
The pilot program for community psychiatric care in mental health centers ends on December 31, 2024. As announced by the Health Ministry, these centers are to operate nationwide as of July 1, 2025. However, to date, key legislation has not been drafted to implement the new model of psychiatric care.
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