Medical troops have been operating since September 15, 2025. The Medical Legion has for respective weeks and I would like to inform you that already a 1000 people, including about 800 medics, have come to the Medical Legion in respective career improvement paths - said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
On Friday, April 10th this year, the head of the MON participated in the conference "Forum of Intensive Therapy 2026", held at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
The event organized with the participation of the Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the 5th Military Clinical infirmary with Poliklinika SP Zoz in Krakow was a space for learning, inspiration and exchange of experience in the field of medicine. During the meeting, a broad spectrum of topics concerning emergency and critical states was presented, besides crucial for the medical field of combat – an area crucial to the Polish Army.
- I'm sorry. Thank you to all those who apply to the Medical Legion. We are entering very intensively into cooperation between military and civilian wellness services, wellness protection. We besides want hospitals in all state as an army. Why is intensive therapy and anesthesia so important? due to the fact that it is crucial to aid quickly, especially in conditions of immediate life-threatening conditions. The field of combat medicine, tactical medicine, medical evacuation is mostly based on maintaining vital functions, on saving life and health, that is, on what anesthesiologists, emergency medicine specialists and intensive therapy do. This is just crucial to us. We integrate these environments - said Deputy Prime Minister during the Forum.
During the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister W. Kosiniak-Kamysz informed that the aim of the Ministry's Medical Legion program is to integrate resources and competences of the civilian medical community with the needs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland. The task aims to mobilise professionals and volunteers ready for action and keep their readiness to immediately support the wellness strategy in crisis situations.
The inclusion of civilian medical resources in the national wellness safety architecture is in line with the discussion of the fresh state medical safety architecture and requires a clear division of roles and interoperable activation procedures. The programme will be complementary to state initiatives specified as the “Military Friendly Hospitals”, which formalise the cooperation of civilian hospitals with the Armed Forces – as the Vice-President of the Council of Ministers has repeatedly said.
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The Medical Legion will act as a consolidating platform that records volunteers from the medical sector, conducts standardized training (TCCC, field medicine), creates regional preparedness centres in military medical safety areas and includes framework agreements with the Polish Army and local governments. The model is based on voluntary, non-profit and partnership with universities, non-governmental organisations and state programmes supporting civil-military cooperation. The Medical Legion is to become a bridge between the civilian medical community and the defence needs of the state - a platform that consolidates competences, trains according to interoperable standards and cooperates formally with the Polish Army and the social partners to effectively increase the country's wellness security.
Within the Medical Legion, 10 engagement paths are proposed, which cover various areas of military civilian cooperation. These include participation in training, exercises and conferences, the anticipation of obtaining basic military training, as well as officer courses for people with higher medical education. They besides include supporting roles - from logistics and administration to social education and the improvement of fresh solutions in the field of military medicine.
