The Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, announced universal vaccinations with the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. From Friday (16/09), people aged 12 and over will be able to take a second booster dose. Vaccinations will be carried out with the updated preparations of Pfizer and Moderna,...
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski will announce today information about the start of universal vaccination against Covid-19 with a second booster dose. He will provide details at a press conference.
The health department provided the latest data for the period from 8 to 14 September: we have 29,056 (including 5,716 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (4908), Silesian (3363), Greater Poland (2338), Lublin (2255), Lesser Poland (2240), Łódź...
The Parliamentary Health Committee passed a government bill on laboratory medicine. 14 deputies sitting in the committee voted for the bill. Six were against. One person abstained. According to the project, only a person who graduated in medical analyst will be able to practice the profession of...
The recent spike in infections is not a new wave of a pandemic, says Health Minister Adam Niedzielski. The number of infections increased by 37% on Monday. on a week-to-week basis. Last Friday, there were almost 5,000 infections.
The European Medicines Agency has recommended marketing authorization for the next version of the Covid-19 vaccine. This time the preparation is updated with protection against Omikron BA.4 and BA.5 virus variants. Meanwhile, doctors are appealing to governments for clear vaccination guidelines....
The World Health Organization is calling on European countries to take seriously the care of patients who have had Covid-19 disease. It calls for investment in research and the development of postovid rehabilitation plans. According to scientists from the University of Washington, in the first...
The first batch of vaccines against COVID-19 in the Omikron BA.1 variant has arrived at RARS warehouses, the Minister of Health announced on Friday afternoon on Twitter. 450,000 doses have been delivered to Poland, the next transport is scheduled for next week. Also next week, the Ministry of...
- Probably by the end of the day all EU member states should receive the first deliveries of new vaccines against Covid-19 - announced Grzegorz Cessak, president of the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products on Radio Plus. By the end of the month, 500,000 to 800,000 jobs are to be...
The Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on quality in healthcare and patient safety. As Health Minister Adam Niedzielski informed at the Economic Forum in Karpacz, the bill should be submitted to the Sejm in September. If approved, it will probably be signed by the...
- We will increase expenses on hospital care - declared Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski during the Healthcare Forum in Karpacz. The valuation of services in internal medicine departments, hospital emergency departments, emergency rooms and night and holiday medical assistance will increase....
Primary school grades 1-3 students will learn about health, but only in other classes. There will be no separate subject, Health Knowledge, the introduction of which was announced a few years ago, and then including such a task in the National Oncological Strategy, against the opposition of the...
- The time of technological stagnation in the Polish healthcare system lasted too long. Now we are dealing with a technological explosion - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski during the Healthcare Forum in Karpacz. Services such as e-prescription or e-sick leave already operate in Poland....
Nothing sweeps away power as effectively as social discontent resulting from living conditions. The French Revolution, National Socialism in Germany, the great Soviet Union, and even our August '80 - all were based on the fact that there was nothing to live for. We are currently on a perfect path...
During the meeting of the Senate Health Committee on Monday, the accusations of hospital directors, experts and employee representatives against the act on minimum wages in health care, and more specifically - the method of its financing and implementation, were heard loudly again.
The Zielona Góra Agreement Federation submits a complaint to the Minister of Health against the president of the National Health Fund for the lack of money for pay rises. Doctors also complain to the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection about the blackmail on the part of the National...
On Friday, the President of the Supreme Medical Council handed nominations to 21 scientists - doctors and dentists who were members of the Council of Experts of the Supreme Medical Chamber.
The draft of the ordinance of the Minister of Health was submitted for consultation, amending the ordinance on the scope of necessary information processed by service providers, the detailed manner of registering this information and its transmission to entities obliged to finance services from...
These are no longer black visions, it's a fact - patients from rural areas are losing access to family medicine clinics. The lack of incentives to work in small towns and villages makes even the two-speed POZ a myth today, because in many small towns it is no longer possible to speak of any...
The first national consultant in the field of addiction psychotherapy was dr hab. n. soc. Barbara Bętkowska-Korpała from the Department of Clinical Psychology, University Hospital, prof. Of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Department of Medical Psychology at the Chair of Psychiatry of the...
The ordinance of August 31, 2022 on the establishment of the Dentistry Development Council was published in the Official Journal of the Minister of Health.
WHO warns that every tenth child is obese, but it is Polish children who gain weight the fastest in Europe! And obesity is not just "excessive fat" or a few unnecessary kilograms. Obesity is a chronic, multi-organ disease often leading to the development of many other serious diseases, even...
The Health Resort has published data for the period from August 25, 2022 to August 31, 2022: We have 21,927 (including 3,912 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from voivodships: mazowieckie (3308), Silesian (2746), of Małopolska (1914), Greater Poland (1740), Lublin (1462),...
The draft of the ordinance of the Minister of Health on the list of entities authorized to conduct tests of materials and technological processes in order to determine the degree of their harmfulness to health and the scope of these tests was submitted for consultation.
Among the 10-11 million entitled to receive the fourth dose - i.e. the population over 60 years of age, people with immunodeficiency as well as health care workers and students - 1.33 million people received the second booster by the end of last week. This week, the EMA may make a recommendation...
The draft of the ordinance of the Council of Ministers amending the ordinance on the establishment of certain restrictions, orders and bans in connection with the occurrence of an epidemic threat was sent for signature by the Prime Minister.
The draft ordinance of the Minister of Health amending the ordinance on the pilot program in the field of therapeutic rehabilitation for beneficiaries with a history of COVID-19 was submitted for consultation.
In August, in the journal Science of the Total Environment, a team of scientists presented a study that showed that the most polluted cities in Western Europe had significantly higher rates of death from COVID-19 than in others.
The health department provided data for the period from 18 to 24 August: we have 26,969 (including 4,663 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (4258), Silesian (3275), Lesser Poland (2302), Greater Poland (1882), Lower Silesia (1864), Lublin (1769),...
Is it about half of the district hospitals going bankrupt? - asked local government officials and directors of poviat hospitals during a conference organized on Tuesday in Warsaw, devoted to the current financial situation of hospitals, caused by the act on minimum wages for health care workers.
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