Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centre-left Civic Coalition (KO) party has been hit by a wave of public outrage over the fact that a VIP lounge was set up at an Accident and Emergency (A&E) facility of a Warsaw public hospital and managed by a doctor who was a prominent member of the ruling party and earning €400,000 per year.
The doctor in question, Dawid Kacprzyk, was a local Warsaw councillor and leader of the youth wing of the KO who was appointed to manage A&E at the hospital, although he had only been a qualified doctor for two years and had not completed his specialisation. In the last financial year, he earned €400,000.
Tusk responded to the outrage over the reports in the media by announcing legislation to cap the pay of doctors in the public health service and is reported to be considering the suspension of his party’s structures in Warsaw.
