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POLAND, JUL 21 – The programme addresses diagnostic delays averaging 7-12 years and includes eight multidisciplinary centres offering free, comprehensive care to improve women's reproductive health.
- Amid calls to shorten diagnostic delays, the ministry launched the national programme in Poland, supported by a regulation for free nationwide diagnosis and treatment.
- After years of advocacy by Pokona Endometriozę, diagnostics delays in Poland, averaging seven to twelve years, prompted the new programme.
- As part of the programme, eight multidisciplinary centres have been established under the Ministry of Health, offering free holistic endometriosis care through Poland's National Health Fund.
- Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said “What we have struggled with for years is the fact that we were not coping with diagnostics and diagnosis,” while doctors work on a rapid test to diagnose endometriosis faster.
- This initiative addresses a condition where delays leave countless women suffering without answers, affecting women of childbearing age worldwide and aiming to improve diagnosis and care access.
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