On January 17, the Supreme Medical Council was to decide on the organization of an extraordinary congress - eight district medical councils had previously passed resolutions on the need to discuss and vote on the dismissal of the current NRL president. However, there will be no congress, but a medical "round table" will be held in March, dedicated to the situation in the local government.
Dispute in the doctors' self-government: there will be no convention
Published Jan. 20, 2025 09:39
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The conflict in the medical council has been smoldering for a long time - opponents of President Lukasz Jankowski say since the day he was elected, in May 2022. At the end of 2024, it took a turn for the worse: several district medical councils passed resolutions criticizing the current authorities of the medical self-government (the list of the dissatisfied includes chambers from Krakow, Silesia, Toruń, Gorzow Wielkopolski and Bydgoszcz, among others). The list of accusations is long: from personnel issues, toleration of mobbing at the NIL to issues related to the radical change of the NIL's logo and limiting dialogue, as evidenced by the actual liquidation of the Convention of Presidents of District Medical Councils.
Formally, eight resolutions are needed to convene a convention - and that's how many have been passed. However, the congress will not be held. The National Election Committee of the Supreme Medical Council has not submitted a motion to hold an extraordinary congress to recall Jankowski. - On the eve of today's meeting of the Supreme Medical Council, the ORL of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Chamber of Physicians in Toruń voted a resolution that the purpose of the convention would be solely to vote on the recall of the NRL president. As a result, the required number of resolutions of district medical councils, on the basis of which the NRL decides to convene a congress, has been changed, according to an NIL communiqué published on Friday.
The chamber also reported on social media that the current authorities of the self-government are not shying away from discussion, and all those who are interested in a debate on the state of the medical self-government are invited by the NIL to the auditorium of the Warsaw Medical University on March 7 - a self-government "round table" will be held there.
The term of office of the current governing body of the Medical Council will expire in May 2026. Before that, elections will be held in the district medical chambers, already according to the new regulations adopted in May 2024, which also allow electronic voting (will be possible thanks to the digitization of the PWZ of doctors and dentists). Amendments to the election bylaws were passed by the Extraordinary Sixteenth National Congress of Physicians, held in May 2024.
