At the age of 102, Mieczysław Buczkowski died. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, using the nickname “Buk”. After the war, he continued his medical studies. He obtained a diploma and became an outstanding doctor. On the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he was honored with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
“With deep regret we provide information about the departure to the eternal Warta Warta Mieczysław Buczkowski pseud. 'Buk'
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Medicine student and Warsaw insurgent
Mieczysław Antoni Buczkowski was 21 years old at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. He was a soldier of the Second District of the Warsaw District of the Home Army. Before the Uprising, he studied medicine in secret sets. “The outbreak of the uprising found him in Żoliborz during the duty in the hospital at the Monastery of the Resurrection SS at Krasińskiego Street, where he was a younger doctor” – we read in the social media “heroon”.
On August 24, 1944, during a rocket hospital at Wilson's Square, he was wounded in the head. The gust of the bullet caused him to fall from the ground floor to the basement, he was flooded with blood. He got out on his own with his own with a paramedic wounded in the eye. In September, he fell ill with Czerwonka, he was placed in a hospital in Fort Sokolnicki. His mother looked after him.
Buczkowski left Warsaw with a civilian population, from the transition camp in Pruszków he was taken as a sick, thanks to the help of Polish nurses and the “left” certificate that he is a person suffering from tuberculosis.
Outstanding doctor
After the war, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Warsaw, where on December 19, 1947 he obtained a doctor's diploma. He started working at the Internal Medicine Department of the Social Insurance Hospital in Zabrze under the direction of prof. Witold Zahorski. In 1949 he was appointed to military service. During his stay in the army, he graduated from internal medicine and healthcare organization. At that time, he worked, among others, as a lecturer at the Medical Academy in Łódź.
In 1957 after leaving the army, he began working again under the guidance of prof. Witold Zahorski at the Internal Medicine Clinic of the Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze, where in 1963 he defended his doctoral dissertation and worked as an adjunct until he took the ordinance of the Internal Medicine Department of the Municipal Hospital No. 1 in Gliwice in 1969. In parallel with work in the clinic he worked as an auxiliary position An academic worker at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Zabrze and then, in 1967-1968, he was the Director of the Provincial Treatment of the Provincial Multi-Specialist Clinic.
He also was the director of the Supreme Municipal Hospital No. 1 in Gliwice and then the function of the director of ZOZ in Gliwice. He was the head of the department until June 1991.
In 2022, on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he was honored by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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