WARSAW Across Poland, patients in need of hospital treatment are facing a growing crisis: Wards are closing due to lack of staff.
The country is already short of 20,000 to 50,000 doctors. That s hitting a health care system battered by the pandemic, which forced many hospitals to convert their space into COVID-19 centers and put other treatments on the back burner.
But once the pandemic passes, it ll become clear that there are deeper problems that will take years to address, doctors say. A study by the Economic University of Kraków last year found that almost 30 percent of doctors want to limit or change their work after the COVID-19 crisis, with 9 percent planning to emigrate and 6 percent thinking of quitting the profession.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish government urged its citizens to stay at home and ordered new national restrictions such as closing gyms, pools and aquaparks, after coronavirus cases rose by 24% to a record on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective coverall fills up the form before performing tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a drive-thru testing centre in Warsaw, Poland, October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he hoped to avoid a full lockdown but further restrictions could not be ruled out.
“The main recommendation . is stay home and if you can work from home, then do so,” he told reporters.