People, get out of the way, because the letter carrier is coming. Heavy with letters is the mailman's bag today.... In recent weeks, the Chancellery of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has received several thousand greeting cards from the cardboard nurse Ania, referring to the symbolic figure representing Polish nurses and midwives, and asking how the Polish government intends to guarantee citizens' constitutional right to health care in a situation of a dramatic shortage of nursing staff.
Alarming shortage of nurses in Poland
The problem is increasingly acute. According to the Institute of Public Health at Jagiellonian University, there is currently a shortage of nurses in 72% of Polish hospitals. The average age of a nurse in Poland is more than 54, and the age structure of this professional group is very worrying: almost a third of nurses and midwives are between 51 and 60 years old, about 30% are over 60, and only one in six is under 40. Moreover, 34% of nurses and nearly 30% of midwives have already reached retirement age or have been retired for many years. Projecti...
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