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Actress gets 8.6 million euros to build ‘world’s first coma-curing’ clinic

Actress Ewa Błaszczyk’s new clinic has also been awarded a grant of over PLN 37 million (8.6 million euros) from the Justice Fund run by the Ministry of Justice, which will cover the clinic’s construction and equipment. Piotr Nowak/PAP

Following on from the success of her Budzik clinic where children in a coma receive treatment, care and rehabilitation, actress Ewa Błaszczyk now plans to build a similar clinic for adults in a coma.

New Medical Research Agency to make medicine ‘more innovative’

The new Agency will fill a gap in Poland, supporting medical progress through analysis, funding and research, with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare in the country.

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Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
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HERO! Polish chef tackles London Bridge terrorist with 1.5-metre narwhal tusk
Old black and white photos of Warsaw Uprising brought to life in incredible colour
One of Egypt’s oldest churches dating back to the 4th century found hidden behind ancient basilica wall

Art & Culture

All the world’s a stage: opera goes online thanks to new programme

Opera lovers will get the chance to see the Polish National Opera and many more companies via their computer screens.

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Warsaw honours anti-communist dissidents, communism victims
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Spring leader announces new political force - New Left
Polish opposition party chooses presidential candidate

'My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS!'

During WW II, the Germans kidnapped up to 200,000 ‘racially suitable’ Polish children for adoption by senior Nazis. In a harrowing, exclusive interview, TFN speaks to the son of one of the ‘Lebensborn’. What makes his story unusual though, is that with no real family of her own in Poland, Dariusz Dziekan’s mother quickly got back in contact with her German adopted mother after the war and Dziekan grew up knowing this woman simply as Grandma.

Dan Session
Today we take a look at the Polish musicians who have been recording for ECM.

Why So Serious?
Sergiusz takes a look at two of Poland’s phenomenal female writers.

Events

27/09 - 15/12 Interwar architecture exhibition showcases five themes in five cities
05/11 - 14/01 Fascinating story of Vasa kings brought to life at Warsaw’s Royal Castle
27/01 Royals, world leaders to attend Auschwitz liberation anniversary
21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21
29/07 - 15/11 Epic Polish painting to be exhibited at National Gallery in London

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