During the 10th National General Meeting of Delegates, new authorities of the Polish Diabetes Association were elected.
The doctor's role is to treat patients, and all bureaucratic activities, including those involving, among other things, time-consuming marking of drug payment levels on prescriptions, should be reduced as much as possible. It is not the doctor but the Minister of Health who decides in his...
During the pandemic, families in crisis received the necessary assistance, although it was most often in the form of ad hoc interventions, the Supreme Audit Institution assesses in its latest report. The auditors admit that such a course of action was justified by the emergency situation, but the...
A Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on sanitary and hygienic experts has been submitted for consultation.
Doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement appeal to wear masks in clinics. - First of all, they can save lives, and secondly, they can prevent paralysis in health care, which no patient would want to go through again. Let's remember: a sick doctor is... no doctor! A sick nurse is... no...
- Social policy should be taken out of the bracket of political disputes, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during a conference at which the points of the Decalogue of Polish Affairs were presented. These are social policy and education and health. The prime minister stressed that the...
St. Family Specialized Hospital celebrated World Prematurity Day (17.11.) with children born prematurely at the facility. They were accompanied by their families, medical staff involved in the process of caring for premature babies and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska.
Stocks of blood and blood components are dwindling, the National Blood Center is warning. The situation is worst in the provinces of Swietokrzyskie and Zachodniopomorskie. There, all groups are in short supply. Meanwhile, stocks of group 0 Rh- blood are running out throughout Poland.
On December 6, booster vaccinations against COVID-19 will start in Poland, which is good news. It would be, if it weren't for all the others regarding these vaccinations, which are coming in parallel and effectively dampen optimism.
- If I get such a proposal, I think I will accept it," said Health Minister Katarzyna Sójka, when asked on Radio ZET about whether she will head the health ministry in the new government being formed by Mateusz Morawiecki. As she recalled, the head of the Council of Ministers is expected to...
The Supreme Medical Council has issued an appeal to Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Holownia for the candidacy of Dr. Pawel Kukiz-Szczucinski for the position of Children's Ombudsman. As the local government argues, in an era of crisis in child and adolescent psychiatry, such a function should be...
Starting December 6, the vaccine against COVID-19, which also protects against the XBB (Kraken) variant, will be available free of charge at vaccination centers, both in primary care clinics and pharmacies, reports the Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 1,300 infections were confirmed in Poland on...
– Profilaktyka to męska sprawa, dlatego weź na warsztat swoje zdrowie — apeluje Filip Nowak, prezes Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia i zachęca mężczyzn do korzystania z programu Profilaktyka 40 Plus. W pakiecie badań jest m.in. PSA, pozwalające na wczesne wykrycie raka prostaty.
As of November 1, 2023, regulations went into effect allowing the National Health Fund to enter into agreements with operators of public pharmacies and to bill public funds for the performance of recommended immunizations in pharmacies. Applications can be submitted from November 2.
It is estimated that up to one in eight babies in Poland is premature. According to the Central Statistical Office, 306,155 babies were born in 2022, of which 22,510 were premature births, that is, births that occurred before 37 weeks of gestation. Just a dozen years ago, treating newborns born...
The first parliamentary teams are already being reported. Some of them will lean into health care issues. This includes the Confederation MP-dominated team on perinatal care again.
Development and Technology Minister Waldemar Buda has signed an agreement that relieves the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw of a debt of PLN 25.5 million. The institute is a specialized facility that provides assistance to patients from all over Poland.
The Education Monitoring System now has ranking lists of doctors and dentists qualified and not qualified to begin specialization (https://www.cmkp.edu.pl/ksztalcenie/postepowania-kwalifikacyjne) in the second stage of the qualification procedure.Important: the deadline for confirming the...
The National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians has commented on the draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the operation of treatment entities providing care for alcohol addicts, which has been submitted for public consultation. The purpose of the draft is to define the scope of...
Nierozpoznana lub późno rozpoznana skraca życie chorych o 10-15 lat. Ministerstwo Zdrowia, w Światowym Dniu Przewlekłej Obturacyjnej Choroby Płuc (15.11.) przypomina o objawach, które mogą wskazywać na to groźne schorzenie.
A team of electrophysiologists from the Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the National Institute of Cardiology (NIKard) performed the first implantation of an extravascular cardioverter defibrillator (EV-ICD) in Poland on Tuesday (14.11.). The device was implanted in a 43-year-old patient with...
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