A bus from Pila has been spectacularly transformed into an armoured hospital wagon and sent to help the wounded in Ukraine. Gifted to the humanitarian organisation Humanosh by Pila City Hall and transport authority MZK, the Solaria Urbino 10 bus is protected by 8 mm shrapnel-resistant armour, fine mesh coverings over the windscreen and metal…
More than 4,500 foreign doctors are currently working in Poland, the Polish health minister said on March 16. Adam Niedzielski pointed out that foreigners now accounted for nearly 5% of all physicians employed in Poland. Speaking in a radio interview Niedzielski said foreign doctors applying for work in Poland were subject to a simplified screening…
The insured patients who suffer from high blood pressure will benefit from the compensated medicine with the international denomination, nebivololum from April 1. According to the Health Ministry, the decision on extending the therapeutic indications for the nebivololum preparation belongs to the council for medicines compensated from the Mandatory Health Insurances Accounts (FAOAM). Thus, the…
The Georgian Government’s Interagency Commission has been authorised to set wholesale prices for select pharmaceutical products by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, in the latest move designed to effect a reduction of domestic costs of medication. Citing “high public or state interest” in the mandate, the Government Administration said the Commission had also been allowed to…
The ambulance park of the National Center for Emergency Medical Care (CNAMUP) was replenished with 20 new ambulances, donated by the Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Moldova. According to CNAMUP, the ambulances are type B, Toyota brand and are equipped with high-performance medical equipment that will allow medical teams to promptly intervene…
More than 771,000 people in 2022 benefited from medicines and medical devices compensated from the mandatory health insurances accounts (AOAM). According to the National Health Insurances House (CNAM), over 770,000 out of all beneficiaries received compensated medicines, up by 30,000 YoY. More than a half of them, 465,000, benefited from compensated preparations for the treatment…
More than 20 modern computed tomography machines will be delivered to Ukrainian hospitals. The day before, they were purchased by SE Medical Procurement of Ukraine. The computed tomography equipment will be distributed to medical institutions in different parts of Ukraine. Three CT scanners will also be installed at the Heart Institute, the National Cancer Institute…