Law and Justice (PiS) Vice President Przemysław Czarnek launched a sharp attack on the Civic Coalition (KO), accusing the ruling camp of creating a dysfunctional and self-serving system. He also referred to the widely publicized case involving the employment of a doctor at one of Warsaw’s hospitals.
Media reports revealed that young physician Dawid Kacprzyk, who served as the coordinator of the Emergency Department at South Hospital and as a KO councillor in Warsaw’s Ursus district, allegedly earned PLN 1.6 million last year while completing his anesthesiology specialization. According to the reports, Civic Coalition politicians were admitted to his department without waiting in line, and comprehensive examinations were allegedly carried out almost immediately after registration.
Czarnek did not hold back in his assessment of the ruling coalition’s actions.
“The Civic Coalition has created a pathological system. A system devoid of scruples, focused on its own benefits and on milking the system without restraint,” he said.
The politician also referred to the recently publicized case of Kacprzyk, describing him as a young millionaire doctor from KO and linking him to what he called a hospital “VIP lounge.”
“It was this pathological, mafia-style group that hired a 28-year-old for PLN 1.6 million a year so that they could bypass waiting lines and use a fast track at the hospital, while ordinary Poles had to wait for hours in the same building,” he wrote.
Czarnek also cited conversations with medical personnel during parliamentary inspections. According to him, nurses and doctors—whom he emphasized were not affiliated with any political party—told him:
“It’s good that you’ve finally started dealing with this.”
In his view, there may be more similar cases.
“There are more hospitals like South Hospital operating within the Civic Coalition’s mafia-style pathological network. These cases will keep emerging one after another, because the system is beginning to fall apart,” he argued.
Czarnek: Donald Tusk Is Trying to Shift the Narrative
Czarnek also commented on the prime minister’s response. In his opinion, Donald Tusk is “trying in panic to redirect the discussion toward doctors’ salaries.”
The PiS politician stressed that, in his view, the issue is not about physicians’ earnings but rather about what he described as “the Civic Coalition’s pathology and theft.”
He added that only after dismantling this system would it be possible to begin a serious discussion about reforming Poland’s healthcare system.
Later in his statement, Czarnek recalled measures introduced during PiS governments. Among them, he highlighted the increase in medical school admissions—from approximately 6,000 places to well over 10,000.
He argued that Poland needs significantly more doctors so that county hospitals are not dependent on a small number of specialists who, as he claimed, sometimes demand very high salaries.
Czarnek also stated that the current coalition had attempted to halt this reform but was unsuccessful. He noted that several new medical faculties are now operating across Poland, enabling young Poles to study medicine at home rather than seeking places abroad, including in Ukraine, Slovakia, or the Czech Republic.