The President of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, has asked Patient Ombudsman Bartholomew Chmiellow to investigate the level of compliance with patients' rights when health care services are provided by doctors and dentists licensed to practice in simplified modes that do not take into account verification of linguistic competence.
In a letter to the MPC, the president of the NRL stresses the need to analyze the impact of doctors' lack of knowledge of the Polish language on respecting patients' rights to, among other things, information about their health, consent to treatment and medical documentation.
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