Medexpress message summary - 09/21/2022

The government adopted a bill on the paramedic profession, prepared by the Ministry of Health. Will be regulated, inter alia, issues related to obtaining qualifications. A register of persons with the right to practice a profession will be created. A self-government of paramedics will also be established.

Even tens of thousands of stoma patients may soon be forced to pay extra for the previously reimbursed ostomy products. Such a risk appeared in the course of works on the amendment of the regulation on the list of medical devices on request. The Polish Stomijne Society POL-ILKO issued an appeal to all parliamentarians, pointing out that for a significant group of patients it is an unbearable cost.

The European Medicines Agency and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have issued a joint statement confirming that biosimilars approved in the European Union are interchangeable with reference medicines or equivalent biosimilars. The use of biosimilar medicines is already practiced in many Member States, incl. in Poland. The position thus unifies the approach of the European Union in this matter. As a result, more patients will be able to access biological therapies.

Director of a large pharmaceutical form detained by the Central Anticorruption Bureau. It is about 300 thousand. PLN bribes for favorable changes in the spatial development plan. Officers of the CBA Delegation in Szczecin detained the head of the Kołobrzeg Commune, the director of a large pharmaceutical company and a Wrocław entrepreneur shortly after the transfer of a property benefit of PLN 300,000. zloty. Detainees heard allegations of corruption.

- It is estimated that in Poland about 1.5 million people suffer from depression. It's a lot. These people need treatment: both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Depression comes first as the cause of inability to work. So it is a serious problem, because sick people are not able to function normally, live, work or learn - said in an interview with Medexpress prof. Agata Szulc, head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Medical University of Warsaw. The interview can be viewed in its entirety at Medexpress.pl