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Medexpress message summary - 09/27/2022
Published Sept. 27, 2022 10:00
Pills containing potassium iodide have been handed over to the poviat headquarters of the State Fire Service throughout the country, the Ministry of the Interior and Administration informed. It is related to the media information concerning the fighting in the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant area. According to the Ministry of Interior and Administration, the distribution of potassium iodide tablets is a standard procedure launched in the event of a possible radiation hazard. However, the ministry reassures that there is no threat so far, and the situation is being monitored on an ongoing basis by the National Atomic Energy Agency. Doctors advise against taking prophylactic potassium iodide on your own.
Family doctors associated in the Zielonogórskie Agreement Federation, after analyzing the regulation on the project of coordinated care in the primary health care center, believe that, in principle, a good step towards facilitating the path of treatment by patients has fallen on details. The matter is even more acute in the Agreement of Healthcare Employers. This organization explicitly rejects the possibility of joining the coordination process. We write more about family doctors' doubts in this matter at Medexpress.pl
Until the end of September, the provincial branches of the National Health Fund accept applications from medical institutions and pharmacies that want to vaccinate against influenza. The service of administering the vaccine to the patient is fully reimbursed by the National Health Fund. For each flu vaccination, the medical facility and the pharmacy will receive PLN 21.83. Applications for a vaccination center can be submitted electronically.
From the beginning of the next academic year, the Catholic University of Lublin will be leading the field of medicine. It is still unknown where the university's clinical hospital will be located. The university authorities asked the Marshal of the Lublin Province, Jarosław Stawiarski, for help in obtaining a location. This indicated the buildings currently used by the Provincial Specialist Hospital in Lublin. The clinical hospital of the Catholic University of Lublin is to cooperate with from the Medical College of Wisconsin in the USA, as well as the Gemelli Polyclinic and the University of "La Sapienza" in Rome. The university plans to recruit 60 students in the first year of teaching medicine.
New functionality in the My IKP application. With its help, you can carry out first aid activities from yesterday. It will also be easier to find the nearest AED. The application is available free of charge in the following stores: Google Play and AppStore. The Ministry of Health reminds that providing first aid to the injured person is not only a humanitarian act, but also a legal obligation. The human brain starts dying after 4 minutes without oxygen.
