A man claiming to be a doctor from Ukraine received in the Ministry of Health, the conditional right to prosecute the profession, even though his diploma was manifestly falsified due to the fact that he was exposed to the individual data of a woman. TVN's tv programme reporter Attention has utilized a journalistic provocation to acquisition a US-known drug, fentanyl, which officially serves as a painkiller in any severe diseases.
Ukrainian “doctor” without a diploma wrote prescriptions for fentanyl in Poland. A man anonymously reported to the “Notes”, the TVN intervention and investigation program. He said that through 1 of the websites you can get a prescription for fentanyl without any problem.
The reporter decided to verify this information. Without showing any medical records or test results, she decided to order the medicine and pay for the prescription. utilizing journalistic provocation, even the individual data was given by the Minister of Health, Isabella Leschina. In her opinion, the full situation shows "system failure leading to the death of young people".
According to the “Note” programme website, the man who issued prescriptions for fentanyl gained authority after being misled by the Ministry of Health. The hotel granted him a conditional, temporary right to prosecute a profession in Poland. "The graduation diploma he presented to officials was exposed by the university to a completely different person, plus a woman" – read on note.tvn.pl.
Press spokesperson of the Chief Medical Chamber (NIL) Jakub Kosikowski wrote on platform X that the man who prescribed fentanyl to a writer had already issued 9,000 prescriptions. "He never graduated from medicine. He has issued 9k recipes” - He didn't.
"How can doctors from outside the EU presently have easier access to treatment than medical graduates in Poland? They work without supervision, without insurance, without scrutiny of ombudsmen and medical courts’ – wrote NIL via social media. "The Ministry of wellness should immediately block the mode which requires non-EU doctors only to declare that they talk Polish to prevent specified situations in the future. In addition, it should urgently check doctors who, despite their refusal to grant medical authority powers, have given their consent to treatment in Poland" – they called for.
On 7 November 2024, the provisions amending the regulation on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, Category 1 precursors and preparations containing these agents or substances entered into force. The aim of the changes is to reduce opioid abuse, including through prescriptions. The amended regulation strengthens the surveillance of substances specified as fentanyl. But it turns out they can be bypassed.
OUR COMMENTS: Polish bureaucracy has already grown to the level that it begins to eat its own tail. In a country where everything is over-regulated, the simplest tricks of frauds are slow possible. As the celebrated poet wrote: The law in Poland is like a web, the fart will break through, the muskin will get stuck.
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