Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law expanding the range of persons entitled to free medicine to persons under 18 and over 65, the Polish news agency PAP reports, citing Bulgarian media.

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Duda has already signed the law, which is an amendment to the current law on state health care and reimbursement of drug costs, in the presence of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Before the amendment was signed, only persons over 75 years of age who were on the list of the Ministry of Health had the right to free medicines, BTA informed. The leader of the ruling party, Deputy Prime Minister Yaroslav KaczyƄski announced this in mid-May during the congress of the “Law and Justice” party.

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