Patient Ombudsman Bartłomiej Chmielowiec initiated the proceedings after information that patients with pancreatic cancer, to receive modern treatment at the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, had to make donations at the foundation operating at the Hospital.
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He assessed on Tuesday that the practice described by journalists is unacceptable. In the post on portal X, he emphasized that the selection of the treatment method should only be determined by medical and not non -medical criteria, including the organization of services. He informed that in connection with this, the MPC decided to initiate proceedings regarding the possible violation of collective patients' rights. He noted that the case would be controlled and analyzed in detail.
– The recording was transferred to the CBA immediately. I also ordered control in this matter – said the Minister of the Interior and Administration Tomasz Siemoniak. NFZ spokesman Andrzej Troszczyński assured that it is not possible for the patient to have a better method when paying extra. “The National Health Fund, by contracting with the hospitals, contracts those benefits that are in the basket of guaranteed benefits,” he explained. The fund commissioned the hospital control. The management of the hospital also conducts control. – Certainly the consequences must be drawn, because this type of situation undermines patients' confidence in the hospital – informed Konstanty Szułdrzyński, deputy medical director of the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration. Author/author: pop Source: PAP/TVN24 Source of the main photo: Tvn24NFZ controls and hospital intervention
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