- During the time around Christmas we notice that hospital emergency rooms are busier. However, I wouldn't risk the thesis that we are dealing with a mass surrender of seniors to hospitals so that they don't bother us during the holidays," says Aleksander Matysiak, secretary of the Regional Medical Council in Szczecin.
For years, doctors have been conducting outreach activities presenting the problem of seniors in hospital wards in December. It happens that they are not picked up for the holidays by their families, and sometimes it is even noticed that the family prefers the senior to stay in the hospital rather than go home. The situation is multidimensional.
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According to doctors affiliated with the Regional Medical Council in Szczecin, the problem exists and should be discussed, but the thesis that we are dealing with a mass phenomenon c...
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