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Following the increase in investment in barracks and bases, the decision makers liable for the infrastructure planned for this year crucial expenses for the renovation and expansion of department hospitals. Unfortunately, most of these tasks have been delayed, so only selected wellness centres will benefit importantly from the Ministry of Defence.

If I counted correctly, the Investment Planning Branch of the Board of Directors of the Department of Industrial Planning (P8) of the General Staff of the Polish Army at the end of 2024 allocated this year's investment in the military wellness service a evidence amount: over PLN 720 million net. Which means that all tenth of the PLN in the construction investment plan was to aid hospitals for which the founding body was the Minister of Defence. That's a lot.

I remind you that after the reforms of the first 2 decades of the present century, the resorts are located in Warsaw (two institutions), Lublin, Krakow, Opole, Wrocław, Żarach, Lądek-Zdrój, Busku-Zdrój, Ciechocinku, Walcz, Szczecin, Hel, Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz. As of 1 January of the 1st Military Clinical infirmary in Lublin will be separated – existing until 30 November 2017 as a standalone entity – 108 Military infirmary in Elk, to be a medical facility for 16th Mechanized Division and 1st Legion Infantry Division, and Military Task Force Podlasie.

Investments took place in these centres earlier, of course, but on a much smaller scale (except the Military Medical Institute). The measures reserved for this year were awesome – they were expected to guarantee that about 50 construction, renovation and plan tasks were carried out. For example, they could only include rebuilding part of the floor, which houses 1 branch, but besides erecting a fresh building for the clinic. Sometimes they had a low cost value of respective 100 thousand, but sometimes the momentum of gigainvestment for over 100 million PLN.

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However, something stuck in the strategy and until 23 tasks did not turn into tenders. 3 public proceedings continue, and the next 3 inactive have a chance to be announced by the end of the year. From the chronicle work I must note that the tasks foreseen for the 7th Naval infirmary (Gdansk) were at a dead end, worth around PLN 150 million net according to the cost estimates. 4 The Military Clinical infirmary from Wrocław is behind with tasks for about PLN 75 million net, 109 The Military infirmary in Szczecin did not “recycle” projects worth PLN 20 million net. I wonder how he's gonna do. 5 Military Clinical Hospital in Krakow, with more than 150 million PLN net – 1 large tender late launched, with another, unfortunately, delays. And the end of the year is actually next month.

I've heard from a reliable origin that money is not the problem in implementing ambitious plans for doctors. I say there must be an organizational weakness behind this phenomenon, which, after years of drought, may prove incapable to conduct a legally and technically complex public procurement procedure, and later to be an investor and to defender whether the assets of the State Treasury entrusted to them are reasonably multiplied. I am afraid due to the fact that – most likely on the basis of the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian struggles – the decision-makers rightly decided to grow the capabilities of military hospitals in specified delicate areas for the fitness and morale of armed forces, specified as intellectual health, rehabilitation and surgery, and besides granted money to thermomodernize old hospitals, so that their maintenance in our climate would cost less.

Seeing as the implementation of ambitious plans is getting worse in many institutions, I propose that their implementation is going well in the largest capital infirmary on Szaserów Street. The Directorate of the Military Medical Institute in July, August and September concluded 3 construction contracts with a full value exceeding PLN 120 million gross. possibly administrative workers from hospitals struggling with investments should go to WIM for respective weeks of internships, helping to conduct a tender and multimillion-dollar construction later? This may be more useful than expected if in the coming years there are tasks to be raised up by the Military Medical Academy. No regional infrastructure board will lead them, due to the fact that the specificity of investments in the wellness sector is unknown, and hospitals – as I described it – face their own problems adequate that they will not be able to deal with investments in Łódź. Something needs to be done. Either improve the strategy or cancel the WAM resurrection.

Colonel. Artur Goławski , writer “Polish Armed Forces” from 1995 to 2012, erstwhile DGRSZ press spokesperson, consultant in the public relations industry

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