Limits on doctors' earnings and working hours. Hospital directors want work on the bill to be suspended

Tomorrow the Sejm will return to work on the regulations. However, the heads of the facilities want it to be stopped because they are afraid, above all, of the introduction of an obligation for doctors to work at least half-time in one hospital. According to them, this will make it difficult or even impossible for small clinics where doctors come to perform a specific task.

Our surgical departments will disappear because some of the hours are covered by anesthesiologists, explains the president of the Polish Association of District Hospital Employers, Waldemar Malinowski.

Hospital bosses propose that limits on working time and earnings should be set bottom-up and locally, depending on the situation in a specific region. They are to argue for this this week in the Sejm.

The aftermath of the scandal at the Warsaw Southern Hospital

The idea of introducing earnings limits is a consequence of the scandal at the Warsaw Southern Hospital.

In the first half of October, Dawid K., the main figure in the above-mentioned scandal, was charged with committing fraud on property of considerable size, in the amount of PLN 583.5 thousand. zloty.

According to the publication of the Zero.pl portal - as the coordinator of the Emergency Department at the Southern Hospital, as well as a councilor of the Civic Coalition of the Ursus district of Warsaw - he was supposed to earn PLN 1.6 million in medical facilities last year while specializing in anesthesiology.

The prosecutor decided to apply police supervision and property bail to the suspect in the amount of PLN 200,000. PLN and a ban on leaving the country with confiscation of the passport. The suspect faces up to 10 years in prison.