Medexpress message summary - 09/16/2022

As of today, people 12 years of age or older can enroll in a second Covid-19 booster. E-referrals were issued during the night. “We issued over 5,000,700 e-referrals for the 2nd booster vaccination. Over 30,000 people have already signed up for vaccination. To date, vaccination points have posted 353 thousand. free terms for a dose of BA.1. ”, wrote the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski on Twitter. As he added, there are already one million doses of new vaccines in the Government's Strategic Reserves Agency.

Patients with the 20 most fatal cancers in Poland have full access to only 29 out of 136 recommended therapies. Another 46 cancer drugs are reimbursed with limitations. The National Health Fund will not pay for the treatment of the rest - according to the data on the Onkoindex website. The Alivia Oncofundation is investigating how many therapies recommended by the European Society of Clinical Oncology can be used by Polish patients free of charge. The level of accessibility to therapy is determined by the Oncoindex index, which can range from 0 to 100 points. 0 is a total lack of treatment options, and 100 is full, free access to all therapies registered in the European Union in the last 15 years. The latest value of Oncoindex for Poland is only 33 out of 100 points.

- If thrombocytopenic purpura treatment is started early enough, the mortality rate is between 10% and 20%. If we do not turn it on, the mortality rate is over 90%. For a doctor who finds such a patient, knows about this disease and starts appropriate treatment, it is a huge satisfaction. Because often after plasma exchange procedures, improvement occurs immediately - says prof. Jerzy Windyga, head of the Department of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in Warsaw. An interview about this rare and very dangerous disease can be viewed on Medexpress.pl

We are on track to end the Covid-19 pandemic, says the head of the World Health Organization. The weekly death rate has dropped to its lowest level since March 2020. However, in order to finally deal with the coronavirus, we need to intensify our efforts to fight it. WHO publishes six policy reports that summarize the best solutions that can be applied now. First of all, it is necessary to ensure that risk groups are vaccinated, research into the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen continues, and effective drugs for Covid-19 are included in primary care.