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Nearly 1,700 foreign doctors find jobs due to easier procedures in Poland

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Close to 1,700 foreign doctors, including around 800 from Ukraine, have started working in Poland, benefiting from simplified procedures, the health minister has said.

Lublin doctor who saved Ukrainian family’s eyesight after they were blinded by Russian bombing said the surgery was ‘a little’ miracle

After a grueling 1,350km journey to reach Lublin, Olena Pictured) and her sons were taken to the city’s Medical University where they were treated by Professor Robert Rejdak (pictured).

Kraków student creates website to connect Ukrainian refugees with doctors giving free consultations and advice

The website, called ‘Lekarze dla Ukrainy’ (Doctors for Ukraine) and available in Ukrainian, Polish and English, allows Ukrainian refugees to search for medical specialists across Poland and for Polish doctors to list their free services.

All medics, teachers, uniformed services should be vaccinated - minister

"At-risk groups" such as teachers, medics and police officers should receive mandatory Covid vaccinations, the health minister said on Friday.

Life of ‘hero biologist’ Rudolf Weigl who invented typhus vaccine and saved Jews during WWII to be retold in timely new film

Entitled To Conquer Typhus, the film’s producer Bogdan Miszczak said: “When I started looking for information on Dr Weigl, I came to the conclusion that we could not have thought of a better hero.”

Health minister against life sentences for abortion doctors

The health minister has said he opposes a bill calling for life sentences for doctors who perform abortions.

Hospital suspends two doctors over pregnant woman's death

The management of a hospital in the southern Polish town of Pszczyna has suspended the contracts of the two doctors who were on duty when a pregnant woman died of sceptic shock in September, the hospital announced on Friday.

Opposition leader blames woman's death on 'in-human' abortion law

Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland's main opposition party, Civic Platform (PO), has said that “ideology” and an “in-human law” were responsible for the death of a pregnant woman who failed to get an abortion.

Fighting COVID in Poland and… Uganda

In this episode of The Debrief, we speak to Dr. Kamil Adamczyk, who recently came back from an emergency medical mission in Uganda to help the fight against COVID-19.

Most Poles consulted doctors by phone during pandemic

Sixty two percent of Poles in a CBOS survey said they consulted physicians by telephone at least once during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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History | Life

Auschwitz museum launches fascinating photo album to coincide with 75th anniversary

Opened on the initiative of former prisoners on 2 July, 1947, the history of the museum has now been documented in the new album divided into six sections and entitled  '75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial'.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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