- This topic should be addressed outside of emotions of a typically political nature. There is nothing wrong with limiting the operation of departments that consume financial resources while not being used properly. This is a waste of the potential of the medical staff. However, it is worthwhile to carry out such reforms gently and in consultation with the local community," admits Michal Bulsa, president of the Regional Medical Council in Szczecin. At the next session of the Sejm, parliamentarians will deal with topics in the health care system, among others. The bill will open the possibility of consolidating or liquidating loss-making departments if necessary. In the discourse, the most widely commented issue is the potential liquidation of labor wards when they receive fewer than 400 deliveries per year.
According to the explanatory memorandum to the draft amendment to the law on publicly funded health care services and certain other laws, the Ministry of Health will define the criteria for obstetric-gynecological profiles in a regulation. It has been acknowledged that consolidations of medical facilities are possible when less than 400 births per year are received in a given unit. However, the Health Ministry has not indicated that such facilities will be automatically extinguished, but that this is a possibility. At the same time, in an interview, Heal...
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