NRL: no dialogue with MZ

- The situation in health care is very difficult, and the crisis we are facing is already a permanent one, and it will continue until those in power, the politicians, make binding, important decisions for the health of citizens. The Ministry of Health consistently fails to meet with the medical community, does not consult with us about its ideas. Doctors are being discussed today without doctors," Lukasz Jankowski said at a morning press conference on Wednesday.

- We get the Ministry of Health's ideas from the media or through circulated fiches. Then we hear that these are not the Ministry's ideas, but that it was some social side that tossed ideas to the Ministry, which it then consults. Invitations for public consultations on draft laws that would restrict, limit doctors' work never made it to NIL. We can only see Facebook reels, recorded by members of the ministry's leadership, encouraging people to send comments to a designated email," he enumerated.

Doctors do not hide their frustration, even indignation. - We feel we have been treated frivolously. We feel that the ministry has adopted a deliberate strategy of omitting the doctor when discussing the shape of the health care system. We feel that the responsibility for the crisis in health care today the ministry wants to place the responsibility for the crisis on the medical community," said the president of the medical self-government, recalling that the strategy of shifting responsibility to doctors has a long history, as politicians of various options have reached for "show the doctor what you have in the garage" arguments many times before. - Today we are again faced with the same strategy of taking out examples of individuals. We know that 0.2 percent of doctors earn big money in the system. These examples are echoed by the public.

Jankowski warned that the lack of dialogue with the community will have lamentable consequences - as the ministry is heading down a blind alley. - How will the restriction of working hours and the possibility of hiring only part-time during normal working hours affect the Air Ambulance, for example? How is the ministry going to get around the problem of teleradiology or pathomorphology in a situation where there are fewer pathomorphologists than there are hospitals, and the ministry wants to prohibit work in more than one entity and also prohibit entities from signing contracts with companies that associate these doctors? What effect will the ban on contracts based on a percentage of the procedure have? How will this affect queues for surgical procedures?

The medical association has asked the ministry to allow representatives of the chamber to participate in talks scheduled for November 18 (a meeting of the Trilateral Team for Health Care, where plenary talks on salaries are to begin). He also put up a large banner near the MZ headquarters: "Instead of a strategy to liquidate a third of hospitals - this is the Ministry's plan to improve the health of Poles. Instead of ratting on doctors, get to work."