In a nutshell. Medexpress news digest - 19.04.2023.
Published April 19, 2023 08:50
The Health Ministry has published a draft announcement on the list of reimbursed drugs, foodstuffs for special nutritional purposes and medical devices, which will come into effect on May 1, 2023. According to the Health Ministry, the draft Health Ministry announcement does not include planned changes to the program for the treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis (Psoriatic arthritis) - work is underway to determine the new content of the program.
We have started the preceding VII Patient Empowerment Congress - Patient Empowerment Week in Medexpress, i.e. meetings with leaders of patient organizations who take on the role of special editors of the service. In this morning's editorial board, we hosted Urszula Jaworska, president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation, yesterday. You can read and listen about the topics she suggested here:
A nationwide educational and informational campaign "Closer to You" has been launched, the originator and organizer of which is the Artemis Group. The campaign focuses on the topic of mental health in the work environment, and its theme is communication and empathy in this regard. Its goal is to raise awareness of the importance of communication in an organization and the importance of the employer taking on the role of dialogue leader.
Médecins Sans Frontières is reporting more wounded and killed in the ongoing fighting in Sudan since April 15, and limited access to medical aid. Due to the fighting, medical personnel and patients are unable to reach hospitals in many places. Ambulances trying to rescue the wounded are being turned back, medical supplies cannot reach hospitals, medical facilities are being looted.












