Medical Ration co-founder Grazyna Mierzejewska noted at the beginning of the debate that without education, prevention and good diagnostics, which make up the country's health culture, success in health care is impossible.
Experts discussed, among other things, the need for reimbursement of adult vaccinations to prevent many dangerous diseases, the need for reimbursement of pharmacological treatment of obesity disease, which generates more than 200 complications, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, as well as so-called "embarrassing" diseases, whose treatment is often neglected.
We are not using medical advances
Prof. Jaroslaw Pinkas, national consultant in public health, reported more than 80,000 vaccination refusals in 2023. - We will witness a loss of population immunity and dramas caused by infectious diseases and their complications, which until now doctors in our country have not encountered - polio or measles, he warned.
Attorney Piotr Mierzejewski, director of the Administrative and Economic Law Team at the BRPO and co-chair of the Ombudsman's Health Expert Committee, also spoke about the need for broad access to vaccinations.
Prof. Krzysztof Tomasiewicz, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Independent Public Hospital in Lublin, added that we do not use such effective and affordable medical advances as vaccination of adults. He talked about his patient who got life-threatening encephalitis as a result of complications from hemiplegia. - How much suffering and systemic costs we could avoid by spending a few zlotys on vaccination, he stressed.
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