Every day, Ukrainian patients seek help from primary care physicians. There are many more of them in the eastern provinces of Poland. Doctors give them advice, collect a medical interview, issue prescriptions, and in many cases even buy these drugs, because Ukrainian citizens are not yet entitled...
On April 7, we celebrate World Health Day. The holiday established by the WHO will this time dominate the dramatic stories of attacks on hospitals, their patients and employees. With over 80 attacks on medical facilities and 12 million people in need of help in Ukraine, the war across our eastern...
Prevention in the form of vaccinations and the need to monitor epidemiological threats were the main topics of the Wednesday meeting of the Parliamentary Team for Vaccination and Health Promotion, during which the challenges related to the wave of refugees arriving in Poland were discussed.
During the month of the refugee crisis in Poland, 3.4 thousand citizens of Ukraine started vaccination against COVID-19, and another over 2 thousand received another dose of the vaccine. The Ministry of Health has announced that it will issue a regulation on the vaccination of children and...
Up to 2 million people with rare diseases remained in Ukraine. There is a lack of basic medications and medical products, which in the case of some diseases is directly threatening to life. The supplies bought three weeks ago may not be enough for long, and the pharmacy warehouses are empty.
Doctors still do not have tools for systemic treatment of refugees from Ukraine. The problem of drug reimbursement is also still unresolved - the Zielona Góra Agreement is alarming.
Contrary to the government's assurances, in the light of the regulations, refugees in Poland can count - at the health care level - only on emergency aid. Doctors also have no grounds to issue prescriptions with a reimbursement or to vaccinate under the PSO.
We talk to prof. Maciej Duszczyk from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies and the Center for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw.
An interview with Elżbieta Brzozowska, vice-president of the Coalition Foundation for a premature baby, incl. about running a women's company, about the importance of what we do and how we do it, about the employer's approach to a woman-employee and woman-mother, about the creation of a Coalition...
The World Health Organization (WHO) advises Ukraine to destroy high-risk pathogens stored in public health laboratories in the country to prevent the potential spread of disease to humans.
Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at the WHO's regional office for Europe, said at the conference that the WHO had verified 16 attacks on medical infrastructure in Ukraine, which killed 9 and injured 16 people. She said attacks took place in different directions of the attack and on...
During the two weeks of the refugee crisis, we vaccinated about six hundred Ukrainian citizens against COVID-19, whom Poland has already accepted about 1.3 million. The Health Commission, which on Wednesday listened to the information from the minister of health about medical aid for refugees,...
Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency announced that remote data transmission from security monitoring systems installed at the Chernobyl power plant, taken over by the Russian military, has been lost. He also added that the situation of...
The draft law on helping Ukrainian refugees was submitted to the parliamentary committee after the first reading. Its second reading is to take place on Wednesday morning and it will probably be passed on Wednesday as well. The opposition proposes amendments, although only a few of them concern...
The number of refugees flowing in is increasing every day. We are at the forefront of this aid, but we want to feel that there is a reliable partner behind us who will help us - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski after the meeting with the EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides. The...
The Ministry of Health, the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector and the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products are calling for the resignation of individual drug collections for the fighting Ukraine, in favor of organized or coordinated actions as part of...
In the oncology ward of the Chernihiv Children's Hospital, little patients are battling cancer while their city is surrounded by Russian armed forces. The sick are running out of painkillers and their food supplies are running out.
The guest of Medexpress is Ewa Woydyłło-Osiatyńska, doctor of psychology, addiction therapist. We are talking about how to deal with the emotions that are evoked in us by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Medics, as well as students of medical faculties from Poland and Ukraine, developed the Ukrainian version of medical interview forms. Ready documents to be filled in can be downloaded from the website of the Polish Society of Family Medicine.
President of the Social Insurance Institution, prof. Gertruda Uścińska informed that accommodation facilities are being prepared for war refugees from Ukraine.
War refugees from Ukraine who need access to prescription drugs can count on the help of Polish pharmacists. Pharmacists lower the prices of drugs, and some pay for them themselves.
Providing health services in primary care clinics, issuing e-prescriptions, free testing for SARS_CoV-2, vaccination against COVID-19 under the National COVID-19 Immunization Program! Refugees from war-torn Ukraine can count on all of this! - In the face of the tragedy in Ukraine, we not only...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council and the Council of Presidents of District Medical Councils took a position on the situation in Ukraine, expressing their solidarity with the people of that country, who are experiencing a military attack that deserves strong condemnation. Moreover, as...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the approval of the first condom in the US designed specifically to prevent sexually transmitted infections during anal intercourse. However, condoms, which will be sold under the name One Male, are universal - heterosexual couples can also...
The Polish Medical Mission is collecting funds to help Ukraine. The main goal is to urgently respond to the needs of residents in areas affected by hostilities.
A new weapon will to combat excess body weight.
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