- This is a very important moment for me, but I hope, above all, it is a very important moment for Polish patients, for parents who are raising and are immensely worried daily about the health of their children, often affected by rare diseases or cancers. This Medical Fund Act was one of the topics of discussion during the election campaign, just as we discussed then how to help in cases that until recently seemed hopeless, primarily due to the difficulty in providing help and obtaining funds for therapy, funds for treatment. It was then that the idea of creating a special fund emerged, which would enable the financing of such, despite everything, exceptional situations, assistance in those cases where parents, often desperate and in tears, sought financial resources from various foundations, begged for help. We can still see fundraising campaigns for various medical benefits or surgical procedures all over the internet, mainly for children, including those abroad – stated President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace.

- This is a huge sum, much larger than we originally planned. We originally planned for it to be slightly over 2 billion. The Prime Minister's final decision, for which I am extremely grateful, is 4 billion annually, so this is a huge amount, and thanks to this, these funds could be divided into four sub-funds and allocated, among other things, also in cases where it will be necessary to carry out various types of infrastructure purchases, for example of an interventionary nature, or to buy the most modern equipment, or to invest in various innovative solutions, it will also be able to be used for these purposes and for daily preventive actions, disease prevention, thanks to which municipalities will also be able to cooperate with the fund – PAD continued.

- Above all, I want to repeat once again, the primary goal of this fund is to create opportunities to obtain funds for the treatment of rare diseases, difficult situations related to cancers, both domestically, for various therapies, including drug therapies, which very often occur in extremely rare situations, even individual cases, only a few cases nationwide, were not financed by the NFZ. It is precisely this Medical Fund that will serve such rescue actions and for such situations, often extremely costly therapies, but saving health and life, this fund will be able to be allocated – he emphasized.