In the sack, the Presidential Council on Health Care will begin work on a bill on financing various infertility treatments. Its submission was announced by the President when he signed the law on financing IVF from the state budget in mid-December.
The Health Care Council will begin work on a draft on financing infertility treatments
Published Jan. 8, 2024 08:51
Fot: Andrzej Hrechorowicz; prezydent.pl
The IVF method, in the opinion of some members of the public, raises ethical questions. In the face of demographic challenges, in an effort to ensure equal opportunities for all those struggling with infertility, including those wishing to use other methods of treatment, the President announces the submission of a bill to ensure their public funding.
- We will try to gather the first information on methods that may be proposed as infertility treatments to be included in the presidential draft," Deputy Head of the CPRP Piotr Ćwik told Trwam TV.
Council Chairman Piotr Czauderna pointed out that in view of the major demographic challenges facing Poland, and at the same time bearing in mind the different views of Poles, the President would also like to see other potentially effective, but today unreimbursed, medical procedures directed at the diagnosis and treatment of infertility financed from public funds.
- The idea is to create some kind of alternative for people who, for various reasons, do not want to use IVF, or who want to leave IVF for the very end of trying to have a child. There is a belief in the medical community that IVF is all too often used in Poland at the very beginning of the journey. In Germany, for example, it's the case that before you get on the path of a publicly funded IVF procedure, you have to run a diagnostic to see if there's some other problem that can be solved," said the head of the Health Care Council.
The proposed solutions will not stand in opposition to IVF, but rather complement it.
Source: President.co.uk
