E-recept in Poland for foreigners

Traveling is interesting and exciting, but it is also getting out of a person's comfort zone. First of all, it happens if you need medical care or at least a prescription for a drug... This is where you learn the meaning of the phrase "without paper, we're pooped")

In Poland most drugs are sold on prescription, which is not always easy or even possible to get!

So how do you get an E-recept in Poland for Ukrainians?

Let's start with the fact that it's already good, you can get a prescription online without leaving your home. But there is one little BUT, there are rules that cannot be circumvented...

The advantages of an electronic prescription:

• can be obtained remotely, without going to hospitals
• The prescription can be bought by anyone at the pharmacy
• If the prescription has several items, the number of packages, you can buy drugs in fractions with the same prescription

In order to receive an electronic prescription, you must have a Pesel

Pesel - in Ukraine it is TIN. This important number, in fact, must be obtained by anyone staying in Poland for more than 1 month. Pesel is a number without which you cannot get a job, open a bank account or get a prescription for medicine! It is easy to find addresses on the Internet where you can get a Pesel in every city in Poland. You may have to wait in line, but you will get a number right there on your first visit. In order to obtain a Pesel you need your full name, local phone number and permanent place of residence.

Then the situation is different if you have a Ukrainian prescription, medical card with the seal of the doctor, where the appointment is written, or you only have the desire to buy the necessary medicine. In the Internet, social networks a lot of advertising with sites, through which allegedly you can buy a prescription for 40-50 zlotys, without any confirmation. Is it true? It's a mystery for us... None of the sites have either an address or a phone number. When I filled out the form and wrote to the e-mail nothing happened... And so on 3 or 4 sites. After that, we found a clinic that gives out electronic prescriptions remotely. It is quite common in Poland. The communication is with the administrator.

Procedure for getting an E-recept for foreigners:

• contacting the clinic online - correspondence / call
• if you have a ukrainian prescription/statement with stamp from medical card, you should send a picture of it to the clinic, in which case you will most likely receive a similar prescription for 50 zlotys
•  if you do not have any papers, you will be assigned to a "teleporada". In order to sign up for teleporada, you will be asked to provide your full name, Polish telephone number, pesel, pesel address, zip code, and the pesel number itself. You will pay 150 zlotys and you will either be called back immediately, or you will be told a specific time of the call. During the phone call, you will have to literally convince the doctor to give you the prescription you need. Convince means to prove...that you need this particular drug, persuasion will not help.
• After the verdict, you will receive an SMS with a 4-digit pin code on your cell phone. At the pharmacy you will need to give them the pin number and the pesel number, and they will sell you the coveted medicine.)

Lifehack: The absurdity of teleporada is that the owner of the pesel and the caller may be different people. In other words, if you don't have a pesel, find out who provides it to you and order the prescription online... Only the gender must match - husband/wife.

To get an electronic prescription in Poland for Ukrainians, we recommend the clinic in Warsaw "ASTRAMED CENTRUM MEDYCZNY", their website astramed.igabinet.pl/b/. They are quick to answer on instagram, they answer the phone and they let you contact the doctor on the day of treatment. The prescription was written remotely via teleporada successfully. It is very convenient for the administrator and the doctor speaks ukr / rus.

Get drugs by teleporada can not many, only those for which it is sufficient to describe the symptoms of the disease. In other words, you can get painkillers that way. Injections cannot be prescribed that way, as injections are prescribed only at a personal visit to the doctor. Since for injections you need to specify the institution where they will be made... In general, in order to get this or that prescription for a drug, you will need to be examined, which will appoint a doctor.

At first glance, the system seems good: what hurts, you come to the doctor, he prescribes examinations, and based on the results of the examination, he prescribes medications. But what happens in reality? The prescription is written for 1-2 drugs, only 1 pack! That is, if you have a systemic disease, you will become a regular at the doctor's office. Every new prescription = one pack = 50 PLN minimum... Do the math. Further, if you have more than one disease, but for example your head and stomach - you will be asked to go with these problems on different days!!! So the prescription assumes a diagnosis for 1 problem, with the prescription of 1-2 drugs... This system is absolutely identical in the Czech Republic. Everything would be fine, if all the doctors were qualified. In fact the Czech and Polish doctors are low qualified! They are focused only on earning money by writing prescriptions. It is not only personal experience, it is the experience of four acquaintances... A person knowing that he has migraines asks for an antimegretic and they tell him he needs a medical examination! You can't diagnose a migraine by its symptoms, except by the description. A person has an intestinal infection and they don't tell him what kind and prescribe the antibiotic biseptol. Without an antibiogram, prescribing an antibiotic... Or a person asks for muscle painkillers, telling him that the pain is caused by the different height of the teeth, and the doctor says that the bite cannot affect the muscles!!!! What qualifications are we talking about in any of the above cases?

The above is true if you are not on temporary protection or as a refugee. If you are documented, then you don't dream of teleportation, you have to go to a doctor, where you will most likely receive a free consultation, examination, and a prescription. In the Czech Republic, a person applied for help with the status of "temporary protection". Yes, he was admitted for free, but after visiting the clinic, you can still add valerian to the list of drugs...