Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska stated that Poland must provide medical aid for refugees from Ukraine. “They are mostly mothers with children; therefore, we focus mainly on pediatric help. These children go to our pediatric wards”, said Kraska.
The Sejm is working on the draft special act on aid to Ukrainian citizens adopted by the Polish government on Monday, 7 March. The law will probably be adopted by the Sejm today, on March 9, in the evening.
The law assumes that Ukrainians will be able to obtain a PESEL number and use Polish public services, including health care and education (more about the bill in the article: https://dignitynews.eu/pl/polski-rzad-prójal-projekt-ustawy-o- Aid-citizens-ukraine/).
Deputy Minister Kraska emphasized that this act guarantees all refugees from Ukraine full access to Polish health care, with a retrospective date from February 24. “All citizens of Ukraine will be able to benefit from free assistance, family doctors, specialist help or hospital treatment. They will not have to pay for it. There is no fear that the Polish state will not pay for such a service”, assured Deputy Minister Kraska.
He also informed that a vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is launched for refugees because in Ukraine vaccination level was 35%.
“We have opened vaccination points or a vaccine bus at all refugee points”, said Waldemar Kraska. He added that Poland will also provide free polio, rubella and measles vaccinations for Ukrainian children.
Adrian Andrzejewski