We won't win war without medicine. Factories do not have continuity of power supply

The Ministry of Health understands, the Ministry of National Defense hears, the prime minister deals with other things. We send a Pole into space, and we do not think what drama awaits us if there was a war and there is no medicine – writes Tuesday Gazeta Wyborcza.

In an interview with “GW” Krzysztof Kopeć, president of the Polish Association of Employers of the Pharmaceutical Industry, points out that drug factories in Poland do not have continuity of electricity supplies in times of crises and attacks. – Of course, people, hospitals, clinics are a priority – this is understandable. But the legislator forgot that for these clinics and hospitals to function, save the lives of soldiers and civilians, medicines are needed – says Krzysztof Kopeć.

– So what if there will be electricity in the hospital, it will be clear when there are no antibiotics, anti -inflammatory drugs, flabby – and these will be missing in Poland after about two months. No procedure can be performed, except for “heroic” surgery without anesthesia, which will cause us to have infections and die of complications after the procedure – adds the interlocutor “GW”.

The president of PZPPF emphasized that the most needed drugs should be mostly produced in Poland and Europe.

– We produce some of them in Europe. But those from the list of critical drugs mostly not. And this is our drama. Because critical drugs are population drugs – for diabetes, asthma, pulmonary, oncological diseases, and cardiological diseases. We can wait in cardiology, because the consequences of the lack of drugs will not speak right away, but after half a year, after a year. However, we will wait a few days in diabetes and unfortunately people will die, because without insulin we are not able to keep them alive. And most of the drugs for these diseases for financial reasons – as an Union and payers like our NFZ – we pushed from Europe to Asia – he emphasizes. (PAP)

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