- It happened that patients with severe edema could only be helped by amputating a limb. Oncological rehabilitation changed everything," recalls Prof. Andrzej Kulakowski, doyen of Polish oncology. Over the past four decades, oncology rehabilitation in Poland has undergone a significant...
Law and Justice will submit a motion of no confidence in Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna at the next session of the Sejm. - What is needed is a minister who will have a plan, Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski reasoned on Thursday.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk assures that he is the last person who would look into anyone's pocket and will remove from the government anyone who tried to do so. However, the topic of doctors' salaries - and, in fact, the contracts they enter into with hospitals - will not be off the agenda for a...
The CSO report "Household health care in 2023 is now available. - preliminary results." What does the latest data say about health status, chronic diseases and use of medical services?
Regarding the statements about skyrocketing salaries of medical staff, the Board of the OZZL Residents' Agreement opposes the shifting of responsibility for the inefficiency of the health care system onto medical staff and addresses its position to the Ministry of Health and policy makers.
From 8 to as many as 15 additional weeks - that's how much parents of children born prematurely or those who require a longer stay in the hospital after birth will be able to get. The decision, made by the government on October 29, 2024, is aimed at supporting parents during difficult times by...
The National Board of OZZL is reacting to the statement of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna, who said on the "You rise and you know" program on TVN24: "from the data I have from the Agency for the Assessment of Medical Technologies and Tarification, it appears that yes, there are some doctors...
On October 16, 2024, the first meeting was held between leading representatives of the Polish hematology community, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the Alliance for Innovation (AFI) Foundation, which strengthened the ongoing collaboration on the adaptation of the NCCN...
- I will certainly not back down and this regulation will go into effect. We are used to after the Law and Justice governments, that when there is a bill or regulation, nothing can be changed, because the authority is the smartest. We do consultations for this purpose, so that comments can flow...
The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, in a judgment dated October 23, 2024, fully supported the position of the Patient Ombudsman, confirming that laboratory testing of ticks does not comply with the requirements of current medical knowledge and cannot be considered diagnostic in the...
The Health Ministry has submitted a draft law on the National Cardiology Network (NCCN) for consutation. The goal of the bill is to organize the healthcare system in cardiology and ensure that patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated care at every stage of treatment. What does the bill...
- We have about 160,000 orders. We are delivering 100 doses each to individual points. We will see what the so-called vaccination rate will be this time, that is, how many people will want to be vaccinated. On Friday morning, a list of vaccination points will be available online, and it will be...
The free mammography program, aimed at women 45-74, is used by about 30 percent of those eligible. At least 70 percent should, because then the population effect of reducing mortality from breast cancer, the biggest, among cancer diseases, killer of women in Poland, can be achieved.
Children suffering from cancer have weakened immune systems. This is due to both the nature of the disease itself, which causes immune system dysfunction, and the intensive treatment they must undergo. As a result, they are also particularly vulnerable to infection, which is why it is so...
Better organization of queues for services, fighting for better accessibility and quality of treatment, and combating abuse and the spread of fake news, primarily by pseudo-medics, including those medical professionals who disregard EBM principles - these are the goals of the Patient Ombudsman's...
- The new draft regulation of the Ministry of Health, which has been submitted for publication, contains provisions that threaten to paralyze, the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, said at a press briefing on Wednesday. - Our goal is to stop this regulation at the...
In connection with the announced reform of the prison health service, the Ombudsman is submitting to the Minister of Justice a list of problems that need to be solved in order to effectively prevent torture.
Until the end of this year, you can take advantage of the Prevention 40+ program, the Health Ministry reminds. More than 4 million people have already participated in the program. 3.5 million have taken advantage of the free examination packages, and 600,000 have filled out a questionnaire and...
Education among young people is key. It is a common belief, for example, that beer is not alcohol and that it is part of a lifestyle. Deputy Health Minister Wojciech Konieczny and President of the Polish Public Health Association Professor Andrzej Fal talk about the challenges and possible...
- There are changes in the ecosystem all the time, and we can never say that the situation is fully controlled. Natural disasters, such as a hurricane or flood, cause a sudden increase in the epidemiological threat. In the case of Poland, this issue has been taken very seriously in my opinion....
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Twenty-three professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
- Unfortunately, for several years we have had a discrepancy in how many people are vaccinated and how many should be vaccinated. However, it is worth noting that the vaccination status of the population aged 0-19, the one that should be vaccinated according to the calendar, is at a satisfactory...
- For the past few years, we have fortunately had a movement to involve not only doctors in vaccination, but also the personnel who work with them: nurses, midwives and, more recently, pharmacists. This is an excellent movement in the context of disenchanting vaccinations," he said in an...
The IVF program, prenatal testing, increasing the availability of perinatal anesthesia and implementing the National Cancer Network are the biggest and real successes of her ministry over the ten months in government, according to the health minister. The financial situation is challenging, but,...
The website of the Polish Psychiatric Association has published "Guidelines for psychiatrists on making a judgment about a threat to the life or health of a pregnant woman as a basis for legal termination of pregnancy."
Last Saturday (19.10.), during the 13th Congress of the Polish Society of Family Medicine in Wroclaw, an Extraordinary General Meeting of PTMR members was held. During the meeting, elections of the new Board of Directors were held. Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, MD, UMW professor, was elected...
- PCPs have been given tools and diagnostic capabilities at their facilities. It's a much broader package of tests, including those that were previously only available in outpatient specialty care," Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, says in an interview with Medexpress...
- It is worth getting vaccinated. Keep in mind that especially in seniors, immunity is declining. It is similarly weak as in children, who do not yet have a mature immune response. Seniors, on the other hand, unfortunately, already have immune system cells at an advanced age - weaker - and...
Allegro responds to the law changes and halts the pilot of alcohol sales.
- Only 10-15 percent of doctors vaccinate against influenza. People see that doctors don't vaccinate, and if we don't set an example for them, we can't require our patients to be willing to vaccinate. The medical community, unfortunately, is a bit of a barrier when it comes to vaccination...
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