Polish emergency wards on the brink: doctors working six-day shifts, queues packed with non-urgent cases

Polish hospital emergency departments are surviving thanks to doctors working multiple consecutive days without a break and paramedics assigned to impossible schedules. Around half of patients queuing at emergency wards do not actually require emergency care. The report points to a systemic crisis in Poland's emergency medicine system.

Should the Polish government declare an emergency medicine crisis and allocate extra funding to emergency wards?

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