Medexpress message summary - 09/19/2022

The first process for the payment of the so-called the covid supplement for a contract doctor, informs the National Board of the Polish Medical Trade Union. A doctor from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship will receive an additional salary for one month. He will fight for money in the coming months. The defendant hospital authorities requested that the claim be dismissed because a doctor who fought for salary refused to work in the covid ward. As determined by the court, the physician was still exposed to direct contact with patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, due to the fact that he was admitting patients to the emergency room and the ward where he was employed.

There are approximately 10 million people over 60 in Poland. 30 percent of them require care, including the 24-hour part. The needs are huge and the demographics indicate that they will be greater. We already have a problem with the provision of long-term nursing care. We discussed the consequences of the amended Act on the minimum wage on July 1 among experts. The entire Medexpress debate can be viewed on Medexpress.pl

Half of avoidable care errors are related to medication misuse, warns the World Health Organization. A quarter of these events are serious or even life-threatening. The group most vulnerable to harm related to the inappropriate use of drugs are seniors, especially those who are burdened with multiple diseases and take a lot of preparations. The global cost of medication errors has been estimated at $ 42 billion. annually.

We are dealing with the remote working paradox, according to a study by cloud-based business communication providers. With the introduction of remote work, Europeans have become more workloaded, but at the same time have improved their work-life balance. Interestingly, from the beginning of the pandemic, the consumption of dietary supplements in employees performing tasks in the home office mode has increased significantly. The percentage of people using CBD preparations doubled. Doctors are concerned about the rise in melatonin consumption, which means home office workers have trouble falling asleep.