Before employing an employee or during work, he or she should undergo medical examination by a doctor medics work. These are only basic preventive tests, such as auscultation, blood pressure measurement and, in some cases, spirometry (examination of the respiratory system) and ophthalmological examinations (in the case of office workers). Ministry of Health However, he wants to expand the list.
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The occupational health examination package is to be supplemented with: lipid profile (assessment of cholesterol and triglyceride fractions, useful in the diagnosis of dyslipidemia and in assessing the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases), sugar level and determining the BMI index (comparison of height with body weight, useful in the diagnosis of diseases associated with overweight, such as atherosclerosis or ischemic heart disease).
– It's obligatory. Everyone will have to have it done, we are increasing the number of tests in occupational medicine – he announced on the air Radio Zet Deputy Minister of Health Wojciech Konieczny. He would like to new the regulations entered into force at the beginning of 2025. However, due to the need to connect the National Health Fund and occupational medicine systems, this may happen with a two-month delay. The change is a consequence of the transformation of the current Profilaktyka 40 Plus program.
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If the clinic joins the Profilaktyka 40 Plus program and offers this type of tests, they will be free of charge for the employer. – This is a certain catch that should make it profitable for occupational medicine clinics to join this program in order to remain competitive. And if they join, they will be obliged to conduct a short interview – Konieczny said on Radio Zet.
Preventive tests such as mammography, cytology and cytology are also to be free of charge PSA. The changes announced by the deputy minister result from the fact that the “Profilaktyka 40 Plus” program was, according to him, “ineffective”. The operation of the Prophylactic 40 plus program was extended at the end of June by the Ministry of Health until the end of 2024.