Medexpress message summary - November 10, 2022

The Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw lost power as a result of a power grid failure. The entire clinic was left without electricity on Wednesday, except in the areas equipped with emergency power supply from power generators. More about the crash on Medexpress.pl

Hemophilia is a disease that is perfectly treatable, but any problems with the continuity of this treatment, including its financing, can significantly threaten the life, health and safety of patients. Current financing solutions provide patients with constant access to life-saving drugs. Thanks to the National Program for the Treatment of Patients with Hemophilia and Related Hemorrhagic Diseases, we have one of the best hemophilia treatment systems in Europe in Poland; it is important that this system works and is constantly optimized - said Bogdan Gajewski, president of the Polish Association of Patients with Hemophilia, during the conference "The future of hemophilia treatment in Poland" on November 8, 2022 - Thanks to drugs and prophylaxis, patients can lead a normal life. Transmission to watch at Medexpress.pl

The level of physical activity of Polish children is dramatically low, according to research under the fourth edition of the international project "Active Healthy Kids". The "report on the state of physical activity of children and adolescents in Poland" was published. A group of researchers, bringing together scientists related to universities and experts from the Institute of Mother and Child, assessed ten areas related to the physical activity of children and adolescents in Poland on the basis of the best available data. The areas are presented on a school scale, where "1" is the lowest grade, and "5+" - the highest. The overall physical activity of Polish children and adolescents was assessed at 1. Only 16.8 percent. of people in the study are moderately or intensely physically active for at least 60 minutes a day, seven days a week. We write more about the conclusions of the report on our website.

Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin received phantoms for teaching enteral nutrition. They will be used by students of nursing, dietetics and clinical dietetics and obstetrics, as well as pharmacy and medicine. The equipment donated by the Nutricia Foundation will go to the Medical Simulation Center of the Medical University of Warsaw. The equipment provided for the students' needs consists of two pediatric phantoms for teaching enteral nutrition, with the possibility of installing a nasogastric tube and handling gastrostomy. Students will also be able to use two phantoms for learning enteral nutrition, imitating an adult. The CSM PUM equipment will also be increased by one age-simulation suit and one age-sensation simulator.