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New Coronavirus Variant - IHU. Is it dangerous?

While in Europe we are trying to tackle the situation with the Delta and Omikron variants and the threat of the hybrid variants of Fluron and Delmikron, a new variant of SARS-Cov-2 has been identified in France.

Jan. 5, 2022
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Press conference of the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski - live

Jan. 5, 2022
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PNRL's comments to the draft amendments to the act on health care services

First of all, PNRL points to the extremely short - only 3-day - deadline for submitting comments on the extensive and complicated, because it relates to many issues, regulated in many different legal acts of the draft. In the opinion of the local government, such a procedure is in contradiction...

Jan. 5, 2022
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GUS: a huge decline in the number of hospitalizations in 2020

In the atypical year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital bed utilization rate for all general hospitals in Poland was 55%. and was by 14.2 percentage points. lower than in 2019 - informs the Central Statistical Office in the latest study "Health and health care in 2020". Almost 25% of patients...

Jan. 5, 2022
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Is drug advertising harmful?

Just before the holiday break, on December 21 of last year (already), a draft regulation was sent to public consultations, amending the Regulation of the Minister of Health on the advertising of medicinal products.

Jan. 5, 2022
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President Andrzej Duda signed an act on the creation of a compensation fund

On January 4, 2022, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, signed the Act of December 17, 2021 amending the Act on preventing and combating infections and infectious diseases in humans and certain other acts.

Jan. 5, 2022
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Daily report: 17,196 new and confirmed cases

The health department announced: We have 17 196 new and confirmed cases of infection #koronavirus from voivodships: mazowieckie (2601), Lesser Poland (2174), Silesian (2047), Greater Poland (1714), Lower Silesia (1297), Pomeranian (1157), łódzkiego (1063), Zachodniopomorskie (912), kujawsko-...

Jan. 5, 2022
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Parliamentary Team for the Legalization of Marijuana - broadcast

Comparison of two parliamentary bills to be considered at the next January session of the Polish Seym on medical marijuana: 1.print number 1699 (representative of the applicants: Jarosław Sachajko) 2.print number 1701 (draft of the Parliamentary Team for the Legalization of Marijuana submitted by...

Jan. 5, 2022
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Health Commission - work and covid - live

Public hearing on the parliamentary draft law on special solutions ensuring the possibility of running a business during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Jan. 5, 2022
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What drugs will be assessed by the Transparency Council at the next meeting?

The Council will meet on January 10 (Monday). The agenda is: Preparation of a position on the evaluation of the drug Jardiance (empagliflozinum) in the indication: chronic heart failure in adult patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ≤ 40%) and persistent disease symptoms...

Jan. 4, 2022
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We are facing a demographic catastrophe. The CSO publishes the report

The Central Statistical Office published the report "Demographic situation in Poland until 2020. Deaths and mortality".

Jan. 4, 2022
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2 billion for pediatric hospitals. Recruitment for the competition is starting

On January 3, 2022, as part of the Medical Fund (Strategic Infrastructure Subfund), a call for proposals for strategic projects consisting in the construction, reconstruction, modernization or retrofitting of medical entities providing services for children (competition no. SIS.01.PED.2021)....

Jan. 4, 2022
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There is a "Draft Strategy of the State Pharmaceutical Inspection for 2022-2025"

The Main Pharmaceutical Inspectorate submitted for consultation the draft strategy of the State Pharmaceutical Inspection. The Pharmaceutical Inspection Strategy is an initiative of the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector aimed at the development of effective supervision over the manufacture and sale...

Jan. 4, 2022
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Is the supply of hospital IT systems in breach of competition law?

The President of UOKiK, Tomasz Chróstny, initiated explanatory proceedings in this matter. The employees of the Office received the court's consent to search the premises of several IT companies. Assisted by the police, they searched the premises of three entrepreneurs. The information from the...

Jan. 4, 2022
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Daily report: Over 430 deaths and 11,670 infections

The health department informed: We have 11 670 new and confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Masovian (1690), Lesser Poland (1122), Lower Silesia (1096), Silesian (1086), Greater Poland (1034), Łódź Province (835), Pomeranian (737), of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (687),...

Jan. 4, 2022
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Statistics Poland on medics: the number grows, but the staff is aging

How many doctors and nurses are in 10 thousand residents? On the last day of 2021, the Central Statistical Office published the report "Health and health care in 2020". One of the topics analyzed is broadly understood medical staff.

Jan. 4, 2022
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We already have fluron and delmicron!

In Israel, the first case of influenza (known as flurona), i.e. simultaneous infection with the influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2, has been confirmed. The double infection occurred in a woman who had not been vaccinated against the Sars-Cov-2 virus or the flu.

Jan. 3, 2022
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Ombudsman's report on the effects of the pandemic. What was done wrong?

The Ombudsman prepared a report summarizing the time of the pandemic. What was done wrong and how to correct it?

Jan. 3, 2022
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Changes in the Economic Commission

The Economic Commission was joined by: Łukasz Kucharenko and Sylwia Kacprzykowska. In turn, Mirosław Markowski, a representative of the National Health Fund, is no longer a member of the European Commission. The Economic Commission is a team that conducts price negotiations with pharmaceutical...

Jan. 3, 2022
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NFZ: Free help for children addicted to new digital technologies

The National Health Fund, together with the Ministry of Health, launched a pilot program for children addicted to new digital technologies. In 10 specialized centers, the youngest and their families will receive professional psychological help free of charge. According to the data of the Office...

Jan. 3, 2022
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The Ministry of Health will check the effectiveness of the use of spirometers as part of POZ and AOS

The Regulation of the Minister of Health on a pilot program in the use of electronic spirometers in primary health care and outpatient specialist care was sent to the announcement.

Jan. 3, 2022