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Medexpress message summary - 10/28/2022
Published Oct. 28, 2022 11:28
613 medical entities have already signed contracts with the National Health Fund for financing ICT purchases increasing the level of cybersecurity. The total amount of the contracts exceeded PLN 260 million. The pilot training in the field of cybersecurity for POZ employees has already started.
The sick after the planned changes will not suffer in any way - said Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski in the Sejm on Thursday. MEPs from the Polish Coalition asked about the consequences of transferring financing of certain services from the Ministry of Health to the National Health Fund - including drug programs covering the treatment of hemophilia and HIV/AIDS. The minister also confirmed that work is underway on electronic medical records for patients with hemophilia. - Patients will have access to electronic medical records, just like patients in Europe. Doctors will also have such access, including information on used drugs, to best care for patients, he said. More on this topic at Medexpress.pl
The Parliamentary Health Committee recommends that the Sejm adopt the presidential draft amendment to the Medical Fund Act. Also, opposition deputies, despite reservations and proposed amendments, claimed that the changes were necessary and were going in the right direction. During the meeting of the commission, the presidential minister Małgorzata Paprocka presented the presidential project. She pointed to two main areas of change: firstly, the Medical Fund will be able to finance genetic tests in the population of patients under 18 years of age with oncological and rare diseases - about 1,300 cases per year. Secondly, it will be able to finance the purchase of recommended vaccines covered by PSO - by name, vaccines against HPV, which the Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski promised already in 2019 and which are not fully reimbursed in Poland so far. Population vaccinations, first for girls, and then also for boys, were included in the National Oncological Strategy, because the vaccine fully protects against cervical cancer
Scientists are getting closer to explaining the mystery of the so-called long COVID. Long COVID (Long Covid), a syndrome of prolonged symptoms affecting people who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, may affect up to half of all those infected. However, it is still unknown what causes his symptoms. Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Piwocka from the Institute of Experimental Biology M. Nencki PAN in Warsaw. Scientists believe that pocovid syndrome is caused by not one mechanism, but many biological consequences of viral infection. Importantly, recent studies show that they can affect a huge percentage of all infected. - Pocovid syndrome affects 43 percent. of all people who have had an infection, and among those who have suffered from severe disease, this percentage exceeds 60%. - says prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Piwocka.
