– The ideas that come up are just playing with fire. You should sit down to talk with rescuers as soon as possible – said Łukasz Jankowski, president of the District Medical Chamber in Warsaw, who was a guest of Iwona Kutyna in the “Onet Rano” program.
– Rescuers are needed and, moreover, as practice shows, they cannot be easily replaced. Of course, I suspect that the soldiers of the Territorial Defense Forces may try to transport the patient to the hospital, but they will not provide the care that the rescuer will provide, explained Jankowski.
The conversation concerned the protest that the medics, which was announced on September 11.
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As the guest of Iwona Kutyna explained, the ideas of the rulers for solving the personnel crisis in emergency medical services are grotesque. – An ambulance is not a taxi, it is not about transporting the patient, but about assessing the patient’s health, providing help, deciding whether to admit the patient to the hospital. In a moment we will have a situation where all patients will be taken to the hospital, because firefighters or soldiers will not be able to judge whether a patient is fit there or not. We will collapse not only in emergency services, but also in HEDs and hospitals. These ideas are playing with fire – explained Jankowski.
He also added that the rescuers’ protest was the result of many years of neglect and very low salaries in this sector. – Today, there is talk of rescuers protest, but this is a consequence of the system – for years, rescue services have been saved, also of people. It was straightforward – you work many hours for little money, because if you worked less, the system would collapse.
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