Members of Parliament from Law and Justice (PiS) have announced a parliamentary inspection at Pomeranian Hospitals, which until 2025 were headed by the current Minister of Health, Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda. The MPs want to examine, among other things, the system of doctors’ remuneration, staff working hours, the rules for the payment of benefits, and the company’s financial situation.
Pomeranian Hospitals is the company managing four medical facilities owned by the Pomeranian Voivodeship local government: the PCK Maritime Hospital in Gdynia, St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Gdynia, the Florian Ceynowa Specialist Hospital in Wejherowo, and the Smoluchowski Medical Center in Gdańsk.
Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda headed the company from 2017 until she became Minister of Health in 2025.
During Wednesday’s press conference in front of the PCK Maritime Hospital in Gdynia, Law and Justice MPs Kacper Płażyński, Dorota Arciszewska-Mielewczyk, Michał Kowalski, and Patryk Wicher explained that the inspection was related to the nationwide discussion on the state of healthcare following the irregularities at Warsaw’s South Hospital revealed by the portal zero.pl. As they stressed, they want to check whether similar mechanisms existed at Pomeranian Hospitals.
“We want to find out whether, under Minister Sobierańska-Grenda’s supervision, there were more Kacprzyks in Pomeranian Hospitals,” said MP Kacper Płażyński.
As the coordinator of the Emergency Department at the South Hospital in Warsaw, and also a Civic Coalition councillor for Warsaw’s Ursus district, Dawid Kacprzyk was said to have earned PLN 1.6 million in 2025 while completing his specialization in anaesthesiology. On the ward managed by Kacprzyk, politicians from the Civic Coalition were allegedly admitted without waiting in line, and comprehensive examinations were allegedly carried out almost immediately after they registered. These allegations were first reported by Kanał Zero.
The parliamentarians announced that they had submitted around 20 questions to the company. These concern primarily doctors’ salaries, contracts, staff working hours, and the finances of the individual hospitals.
The MPs want to find out, among other things, who received the highest monthly remuneration in the years 2017–2026, on what basis salaries and monetary benefits were paid, whether the company operated a remuneration control system, whether the total working hours of doctors and other employees were monitored, whether the same people worked simultaneously in several hospitals, whether their working hours were properly accounted for, what the financial situation of the individual hospitals looked like, and whether the procedures in force at the company guaranteed transparency of payments, patient safety, and oversight of cooperation with external entities.
“We want to see whether the Minister herself complied with the standards that she now requires from other facilities and from doctors,” said Dorota Arciszewska-Mielewczyk.
The politicians also referred to media reports about payments received by Sobierańska-Grenda from Pomeranian Hospitals after leaving her position as president of the company. These include compensation under a non-compete clause.
In 2025, Pomeranian Hospitals paid her a total of more than PLN 530,000. According to the reports, this amount consisted of remuneration (PLN 373,500), compensation under the non-compete clause (PLN 134,000), payment for unused leave (PLN 12,000), and reimbursement for the use of her private car (approximately PLN 11,000). According to findings by journalists from Wirtualna Polska, in 2026, after Sobierańska-Grenda had already become Minister of Health, Pomeranian Hospitals paid her a further more than PLN 57,000 as another part of the non-compete compensation.
“Upon taking office at the Ministry of Health, the Minister, by operation of law, could not in any case engage in any competing medical activity or work in private healthcare. Despite this, she collected more than PLN 500,000 from Pomeranian Hospitals under a non-compete clause. This is taking public money and transferring it into the private accounts of people closely associated with the Civic Coalition, Donald Tusk, and Mieczysław Struk, who is the Marshal of the Voivodeship and head of Civic Platform in Pomerania,” assessed MP Michał Kowalski.
The spokesperson for Pomeranian Hospitals, Krzysztof Piotrowski, said that the company would review the MPs’ letter and then prepare a response within the deadline provided for by law. He added that, at this stage, the company had nothing further to add.