The prosecutor’s office is first trying to determine whether the sources of whistleblower Dr. Jędrzejewski are credible. Meanwhile, the attorney for Dawid Kacprzyk — the doctor linked to the VIP room controversy — is already trying to prove that Kacprzyk could have worked hundreds of hours entirely properly.
Rafał Trzaskowski, Marcin Kierwiński and Renata Kaznowska, senior Civic Coalition figures responsible for supervising the hospital, do not intend to accept responsibility.
“In my opinion, without a commission appointed by the Sejm, this cannot be explained. Too many people want it to remain unexplained,” says Janusz Cieszyński.
“It must be an expert commission, without politicians, so that the governing coalition’s majority in the Sejm cannot influence it. Thieves cannot control thieves,” says Marcin Warchoł.
PiS MPs are expected to submit a bill in the coming days establishing such a commission.
Yesterday, the prosecutor’s office questioned Dr. Jędrzejewski for the second time. He is the whistleblower who revealed the scandal at Warsaw’s South Hospital. This time, the doctor appeared with his attorney; during the first questioning, he refused to testify because it took place without his lawyer present.
The prosecutor’s office wants to establish whether the whistleblower’s sources are credible. Meanwhile, PiS MP Janusz Cieszyński has independently gathered information confirming the existence of a system that allegedly allowed a doctor without specialization to earn PLN 1.6 million and organize a fast-track path through the emergency department for Civic Coalition politicians.
“He Wouldn’t Even Get Out of Bed”
As we reported in Gazeta Polska Codziennie, the role held by Kacprzyk — emergency department coordinator — is an informal position. At Bródnowski Hospital, he was deputy coordinator.
“This is an invented function so that the thief Kacprzyk could steal money,” says Janusz Cieszyński.
According to responses Cieszyński received from hospitals across Poland, such a position simply does not exist elsewhere. Nor do earnings comparable to those received by Kacprzyk.
“Kacprzyk’s lawyer argues that the 28-year-old did not treat patients, but merely coordinated and organized work in the emergency department. Meanwhile, at the Military Hospital in Ełk, a head of an emergency department is paid… PLN 6,000 per month for such work. Well, Mr. Kacprzyk probably would not even get out of bed for that amount,” Cieszyński says.
Kacprzyk’s attorney, Jacek Dubois, argued that Kacprzyk did not treat patients but coordinated work, attempting to show that working about 11 hours a day throughout the year was “physically possible.” He was responding to questions about nearly 4,000 hours recorded by Kacprzyk at Warsaw’s South Hospital and approximately PLN 1.6 million in remuneration he allegedly received in 2025.
According to Cieszyński, these explanations by Kacprzyk’s attorney, the scrutiny of the whistleblower’s credibility and attacks against him — from Rafał Trzaskowski, Roman Giertych and Bartosz Arłukowicz — are aimed at blurring the scandal.
“In my opinion, Donald Tusk is acting the way he once did during the gambling scandal: he allows explanations to be offered, sends in his fighters, Roman Giertych and Bartosz Arłukowicz, and hopes the matter can be shouted down, that whistleblower Dr. Jędrzejewski can be hounded. If that fails, Donald Tusk is not known in Polish politics for great sentiment or compassion toward people who are failing politically, so I think heads will roll if they cannot fix this or sweep it under the carpet,” Cieszyński says.
But, he argues, the parliamentary route is necessary to get to the truth.
“Without a commission appointed by the Sejm, this cannot be explained. Too many people want it to remain unexplained,” says Janusz Cieszyński.
Commission Without Politicians
“It must be an expert commission, without politicians, composed of lawyers and healthcare experts. It therefore cannot be a classic investigative commission, because the coalition majority — including Civic Coalition — would be investigating itself, and a thief cannot investigate a thief,” says Marcin Warchoł, a PiS MP and former deputy justice minister.
According to Warchoł, the commission would be tasked with examining the quality and availability of medical services in Warsaw and its hospitals, including a comparison between the waiting times of ordinary citizens and Civic Coalition activists. It would also examine the organization of work in medical facilities, including whether doctors worked simultaneously in several places; compliance with patients’ rights; responses to crisis situations; oversight of medical institutions; staffing problems; and whether people reporting irregularities face discrimination.
Warchoł stresses that although the commission would not be a classic investigative committee, it must have adequate powers.
“This concerns, for example, the ability to obtain documents directly, bypassing the prosecutor’s office; to request that prosecutors secure evidence — because to this day, in my opinion, several pieces of evidence have deliberately not been secured, such as laptops and phones; to question and summon witnesses; and to request data from the police and the Internal Security Agency, for example location data,” Warchoł says.
The PiS politician emphasizes that establishing such a commission requires a special law.
“It does not have to be a very extensive law, and in fact it could be passed during this very Sejm sitting. What is needed is the will of the Sejm majority, and this will be a test of how much that majority wants this scandal explained,” Warchoł says.
Yesterday on TV Republika, the head of the PiS parliamentary caucus announced that PiS would present a bill this week establishing such a public accountability commission. According to Mariusz Błaszczak, only the creation of a commission can uncover the truth about the scandal.
“It is Donald Tusk who stands at the head of this system, this network, these cliques. They are connected, linked together. Prime Minister Tusk is responsible for this, and that is why he has adopted the position that he will not explain anything,” Błaszczak said.
In his view, there is also no reason to count on the prosecutor’s office.
“Although he says there will be explanations, no reasonable person takes that seriously. Is the prosecutor’s office, headed by Żurek, supposed to explain this? MP Neumann once spoke about this on the tapes. This is precisely the Neumann doctrine,” Błaszczak said on Republika.