Prisoners excluded from new health care law. Ombudsman intervenes

- Is it planned to introduce a mechanism to establish for persons deprived of liberty an analogous level of health care protection as for other citizens, taking into account the specifics of providing services in penitentiary conditions? - asks the Ombudsman to Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska and Deputy Director General of the Prison Service Colonel Krzysztof Stefanowski.

The Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety passed by the Parliament introduces, among other things, mechanisms for assessing quality in health care and defines the concept of an adverse event. The ROP's doubts are raised by one of the law's articles, which excludes from the l...