Since the beginning of October, the Mental Health Center has been operating at the Independent Public Provincial Psychiatric Hospital in Radecznica (Lubelskie Voivodeship). It will participate in the pilot National Mental Health Program implemented by the Ministry of Health. It promotes a shift...
On Saturday (October 15), the newly opened hematology ward of the Independent Public Provincial Complex Hospital in Szczecin will begin work. The official opening of the department took place on the Marrow Donor Day.
Children's Ophthalmology Department of the Provincial Specialist Children's Hospital of prof dr. Stanisław Popowski in Olsztyn has joined the register of facilities treating retinopathy of premature babies from all over Europe - informs TVP Olsztyn. This places the clinic among the EU elite in...
The European Medicines Agency is to decide today on the recommendation of vaccinations against Covid-19 for children over 6 months of age, health minister Adam Niedzielski informed on Twitter. So far, children from 5 years of age have been vaccinated.
The health department provided the latest data for the period from October 6 to 12: We have 15,749 (including 2,911 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2237), of Silesia (1994), Lesser Poland (1337), Greater Poland (1242), of Lublin (1177), Lower...
Over PLN 800 million is to be allocated next year for the reimbursement of new drugs. The Ministry of Health published a draft regulation on the allocation of the amount of financial resources in 2023, constituting an increase in the total budget for reimbursement.
- In addition to vaccinations against Covid-19, the option of using a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies with prolonged action has appeared for children over 12 years of age and weighing more than 40 kg. We can give them to children, for example, before the transplantation of hematopoietic...
Aleksandra Barbara Sędziak (Sanatorium Uzdrowiskowe "Willa Dąbrówka", Długopole-Zdrój) became the new national consultant in the field of balneology and physical medicine. She replaced dr. n. med. Robert Szafkowski. National consultants are appointed by the minister of health from among...
- Covid-19 causes a break in the treatment of the underlying disease in cancer patients. Such an infection may persist for a long time. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could help reduce the risk of Covid-19 disease, but also allow the treatment to be continued - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Hus,...
The Psychiatry Center for Children and Adults was opened today at the University Teaching Hospital in Białystok. - After more than a decade of the white spot in Podlasie, today we are filling the void in child psychiatry. Children from Podlasie will no longer have to be treated in neighboring...
The assumptions for the draft amendment to the Act on the Professions of Physicians and Dentists, which were published on September 30, introduce changes in the financing of the entire health care system in Poland and will have serious consequences for it - says Wojciech Wiśniewski, member of the...
Experts participating in the discussion at the conference organized on Thursday by NIL and the Telemedicine Working Group tried to answer this and other questions related to telemedicine.
The Department of Mechanical Support and Heart Transplantation has been opened at the National Institute of Cardiology. It will treat patients with severe forms of heart failure. Annually, there may be up to two hundred of them. The launch of the new branch is the last stage of a several-year...
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs that are slowly appearing, we are controlling the situation and the relatively large number of infections do not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said health minister Adam Niedzielski in an...
The Ministry of Health published data for the period from 29/09/2022 to 05/10/2022: We have 20,072 (including 3,981 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2878), Silesian (2464), Greater Poland (1743), of Lublin (1559), of Lesser Poland (1556), Lower...
Hacker attacks on healthcare facilities are on the rise, experts in the field of cybersecurity alarm. Criminals demand ransom and threaten to make intercepted data about patients public. This, in turn, could trigger an avalanche of damages.
The Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze (SCCS) is already accepting patients in the newly opened wing of the hospital. The building houses, among others departments of cardiology, diseases of affluence and mechanical circulatory support. The expansion of the hospital was co-financed by...
The government plans to transfer to the National Health Fund the obligation to finance all current expenses related to health protection. The state budget is to stop paying, inter alia, for vaccinations, medical rescue or highly specialized procedures. We asked dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk, specialist...
On Friday evening, the assumptions of the amendment to the act were published, which - if passed - will radically change the financial situation of health care. The direction of changes, however, will be exactly the opposite than what PiS announced in 2015: at that time, they wanted the financing...
Vaccination of children 5-11 years old with the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine begins. During the night, the Ministry of Health issued 262 thousand. referrals.
Medical exemption from exercise in PE lessons should not mean that students lose contact with these classes at all. Those dismissed from general classes should follow the core curriculum with modifications - it follows from the discussion that took place on Thursday at the meeting of the joint...
Virtually the entire first-tier network of the three-tier model of psychiatric care has already been established. There are competitions for the second reference level - said Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski in the Sejm on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Parliamentary Health Committee dealt with the information of the Supreme Audit Office on the control of the availability of prophylaxis and treatment for children and adolescents with metabolic disorders resulting from obesity and lifestyle diseases. The report itself is not...
The second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine has been taken by 1.8 million people since April - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski on Wednesday, not hiding that this result is far from satisfactory. Next week, the Ministry of Health will launch the "I want to understand" campaign, which...
The health department published the latest data for the period from 22 to 28 September: We have 26 736 (including 5 205 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (3259), Silesian (2356), Lublin (1624), Greater Poland (1617), Lesser Poland (1486), Łódź...
Janis Meiksans, the current CEO of Teva, Hungary, has assumed the position of Teva CEO for Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. He replaced Michał Nitka, who became Teva's regional director for Italy and SEE region in July this year, and took over as head of Teva's global OTC business. Janis...
As many as 77% of transgender people have never tested for HIV, for 42% infection with this virus is not a cause for concern, while every seventh respondent is afraid of the lack of anonymity during the test, although it is guaranteed in the nationwide network of Consultation Centers -Diagnostic...
Medicine is developing very smoothly. New diagnostic methods, new treatment methods, new guidelines. The system, despite the fact that it is "tabulated", computerized and ideally "legged" by the spokesman - has been with similar problems for years. The medical hospital elders disappear at 1 p.m....
The first ten institutions signed agreements to support the e-Gabinet + project, informed the Ministry of Health. POZ clinics will receive computer equipment and access to an application facilitating patient service and reporting to the National Health Fund.
Until the end of September, the provincial branches of the National Health Fund accept applications from medical institutions and pharmacies that want to vaccinate against influenza. The service of administering the vaccine to the patient is fully reimbursed by the National Health Fund.
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