The catalog of reimbursable medicinal products issued free of charge to people over 75 currently includes 2046 drugs. This list does not include flosins, which are used to treat chronic kidney disease, diabetes or heart failure, among others. In Poland, we have in turn about 4.5 million patients with chronic kidney disease, 3 million diabetics, while 1.2 million suffer from heart failure. What's more, as Agnieszka Volchenko, President of the National Association of Patients with Heart and Vascular Diseases EcoSerce, emphasizes in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in Poland very often these conditions co-morbidly co-occur. The co-morbidity and the large number of chronically ill patients make these conditions a heavy burden on the budget of the National Health Fund.
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