Almost 800 thousand More than 360 thousand Covid-19 vaccines have already been delivered to Poland. people have been vaccinated. More vaccines have already been delivered to vaccination sites. Anyone who wants and needs to get vaccinated can do so, said Damian Kuras, the new health department official, during a press briefing. He also noted that today two new deputy ministers have appeared in the Ministry of Health.
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has stressed from her first days in office that her top priority will be to ensure that all people who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 can be vaccinated with the new vaccine (optimized with the so-called Kraken variant). Omicron variety).
Vaccines are available at vaccination sites
“The minister has been dealing with this topic from the first days of her tenure. She succeeded, and we also have more than 200 thousand vaccines. As a result, almost 220 thousand vaccines can already be purchased at vaccination points. The State Agency for Strategic Reserves currently supplies more than PLN 200,000 to healthcare institutions, pharmacies, hospitals, social welfare homes and medical institutions. vaccine. Anyone who wants or needs to get vaccinated can do so, said Damian Kuras, urging people to visit the patient.gov.pl website and sign up for vaccination.
– Today there are 80 thousand vaccination points here. free dates and 20 thousand people have already been registered for vaccination. Getting vaccinated is very easy: in clinics and pharmacies. This is almost 2.5 thousand. vaccination points, including 400 points located in pharmacies, he emphasized.
He noted that more than 800 thousand have already been delivered to Poland. vaccines and 360 thousand people in Poland were vaccinated with the new vaccine. The largest group of vaccinated people are people aged 60 to 79 years: already 216 thousand. people in this group took the vaccine.
The two previously appointed deputy ministers were joined by two new deputy ministers.
Since January 4, according to the press secretary, two new deputy ministers have appeared in the Ministry of Health: prof. Ursula Demkov and Marek Kos.
Prof. Urszula Demkow is an immunologist who previously headed the Department of Laboratory Diagnostics and Clinical Immunology of Developmental Age at the Medical University of Warsaw. She is also a member of the Committee of Immunology and Etiology of Human Infections of the Polish Academy of Sciences and head of the Szymon Hołowni Poland 2050 medical team. She developed the Poland 2050 program addressing health needs.
Read the interview with prof. Ursula Demkov:
Marek Kos was previously the director of the Specialized Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Sandomierz, and previously of the hospital in Krasnik. He is a physician specializing in general surgery and public health. He is also an associate professor at the Department and Institute of Public Health at the Medical University of Lublin. He was an adviser to the Lublin Voivodeship Assembly from the Polish People’s Party.
The Ministry of Health has already announced that Wojciech Konieczny and Maciej Miłkowski will also serve as deputy ministers of health.
Wojciech Konieczny - senator; until he took up the post of Deputy Minister of Health, he was the director of the city hospital in Częstochowa. He is a physician, neuroscience specialist, and has completed postgraduate studies in management and marketing with a specialization in healthcare management.
Maciej Milkowski has held the position of Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Health since 2018. Previously, he was, among other things, financial director of the Mazowieckie Regional Health Fund, deputy director for economic affairs of the Institute of Mother and Child, deputy director for economic affairs of the Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw, deputy president of the National Health Fund for finance.
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Source: Wprost
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