In the previous flu season, only from January 12, 2022, pharmacies could apply for participation in the National Influenza Vaccination Program (NPS). Joining the NPS only in mid-January did not make much sense. The results confirmed it. Only about 8,500 vaccinations were performed in pharmacies,...
On January 3, 2023, in the program "Kwadrans Polityczny" on TVP1, Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska said, among other things, that "at the next session of the Sejm, next week, we want to submit an amendment so that the pharmacist can also issue us this prescription. So we enter the...
In an interview with "Rzeczpospolita", the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, said that "pharmacists are not authorized to issue prescriptions for vaccinations and we want to change it as soon as possible, but for this we need a statutory change. We want to look at it and discuss it together...
The President of the District Pharmacy Council in Warsaw stated that "combined tests for COVID-19, influenza and RSV are a classic example of the possibility of using the potential of pharmacists employed in pharmacies, the implementation of this service in the pharmacy will relieve the health...
The use of a medicinal product in the off-label procedure is a biomedical experiment. Change in the therapeutic procedure in terms of indications for use, dosage, route of administration without further specification: 1/contraindications, 2/special warnings and precautions, 3/interactions with...
Recently, we were reminded by doctors that our profession is also a mission. Basically, a mission to save people. And it was contrasted with the pursuit of making money. Well, there is no such contradiction. A doctor with a "mission" cannot just walk into any hospital and help the sick free of...
On December 7, 2022, the following announcement was issued: "The Wielkopolska Voivodship Pharmaceutical Inspector reminds you of the obligation to serialize medicinal products when accepting them at the pharmacy and when dispensing them to the patient. A medicinal product that does not undergo...
For some time, the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister, as well as some other representatives of the government, have been boasting in the media that the current government has greatly improved the situation of public health care. This is evidenced by greater than ever before - and still...
Do not waste the potential of human mind and heart. Don't waste money. Be economical. Not to get into group quarrels and quarrels that do not lead to progress in healthcare. Not to promote false medical technologies or miracles of youth, wealth and eternal health. Do not wag lovelessly "tails" of...
I read recently that a son saved his father's life in Kiev. No, not in the midst of hostilities, but as a bone marrow donor. My father developed severe aplastic anemia (a disease in which the marrow does not produce blood cells). It is a potentially fatal disease that is treated with bone marrow...
I am a graduate of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź, a university that ceased to exist. However, I will not write about how it was liquidated, but about how it was created.
The minister of health signed an advance purchase agreement for 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for PLN 10 billion. To date, 56.7 million doses have been administered. Currently, there are 25 million doses in the Governmental Agency for Strategic Reserves. For comparison, the UK Health...
On September 20, 2022, the article "Bez żartów" written by mgr farm was published in the Pharmacy Magazine. Marek Tomków. Excerpt: "Six Minutes. This was the length of the training course where pharmacists learned how to take swabs from COVID-19 patients. Half of it was spent watching an...
I was recently among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize awarded at Harvard University, awards for research papers that first make you laugh and then make you think . The work was invented and performed by my younger colleagues, and my role was mainly boiled down to the fact that when they came to...
On the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), World Patient Safety Day is held on September 17 each year. This year's theme is drug safety: "World Patient Safety Day: medication safety, medication without harm". WHO encourages healthcare professionals and patients to take action to...
The act on the profession of pharmacist contains the following provision: "The pursuit of the profession of pharmacist is aimed at protecting patient's health and protecting public health, and consists in providing pharmaceutical care". One of the elements of pharmaceutical care is performing...
In accordance with art. 94 of the Pharmaceutical Law Act, the working hours of generally accessible pharmacies in a given area are determined by a resolution by the poviat council, after consulting the commune heads (mayors, city presidents) of communes from the poviat area and the pharmacist's...
From April 1, 2020, a licensed pharmacist may issue a pharmaceutical prescription in the event of a threat to the patient's health (before April 1, 2020 - in the event of a sudden threat to health or life). How many such prescriptions are issued? What drugs are the most frequently prescribed...
September is a month when many parents come to see psychological help with their children. Does this mean that during the holidays there were no problems or we did not want to see them? We asked prof. Ewa Mojs, chairman of the Scientific Council of the Nie Widać Po Me Foundation.
The minister of health first mocked pharmacists because he introduced the possibility of free antigen testing in pharmacies for only two months. Then he unjustifiably slandered the entire professional group because in an interview for Polsat News he said that "possible shortages of drugs in...
At a press conference on August 9, 2022, Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski announced that work was underway to increase retail and wholesale margins in pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers. Moreover, the ministry intends to introduce financing of pharmacies' roster. Margins The...
There used to be such billboards in Poland, "I am knitting myself". They showed a criminal getting a tattoo. I don't remember what it was about anymore, at least it wasn't a campaign against tattooing. Besides, tattooing in prison had a specific informative purpose (defining a place in the prison...
The little chemist was such a game with chemistry for inquisitive students. In the 60s of the last century, in stores with ambitious toys, you could buy a set of a little chemist. The kit included test tubes and various reagents and a simple instruction on what to mix with what and how to...
In the European Union, shortages, shortages and reduced availability of drugs are a real problem. The reasons for a drug shortage are manifold: production interruptions due to lack of active ingredients that come from China and India (around 80 percent), increased demand, supply chain collapse...
A dozen or so years ago, an extremely energetic brunette, probably a fifth-year student of the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Warsaw, Ania Waszczuk, came to my office with a declaration that she intends to work in a hematology research club. Her extraordinary intelligence was...
Some time ago, the validity of covid certificates was reduced to 270 days. The undersigned received the third dose on October 11, 2021, i.e. more than 270 days ago, and his certificate is therefore invalid by law. The undersigned works full-time (and even more so) in constant contact with dozens...
Many years ago, when as a young doctor I was living in the hospital dormitory, instead of giving me the key to my room, she said that some short and fat friend came to me, so she gave him the key. I was going to the room wondering who he might be talking about, because I didn't have any such...
I try my best but to no avail. I already know that the process of losing weight is arduous and difficult. I look at pharmacology with an increasingly greedy eye and I place more and more hope in it, envying my colleagues. I experienced that the usual rule of less eat food did not bring any...
The discussion about educating doctors in Poland ranges from the postulates of "practicing studies" to the elimination of the basic method of practical apprenticeship, ie postgraduate internship.
A colleague asked me if we should boycott Russian doctors, just like we boycott, for example, athletes? I replied no. Why not?
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