Ziobro abruptly stands up for free doctors and wants to liquidate local governments and medical courts

The lawyer General has made an authoritative request to the President-in-Office of the Constitutional Tribunal of the United States for a thorough examination of the compatibility of the Articles of the Medical Chambers Act, which concern the membership of the medical authority and the existence of medical courts, with the existing constitution. "Doctors" frequently financed by pharmaceutical companies consider that any challenge to these rules would consequence in the abolition of their self-government. The full situation is related to the defence of doctors against vaccinations.

Information on the application was made on Tuesday on the authoritative website of the Constitutional Court. In the fresh two-week government of Mateusz Morawiecki, Zbigniew Ziobro no longer serves as Minister of Justice and, consequently, is no longer a lawyer General. Since Monday, Deputy Minister Marcin Warchoł, who is simply a close associate of Zbigniew Ziobra, took over these duties. It was in the defence of doctors who opposed vaccinations that this conclusion was drawn.

This proposal was previously announced by the Ministry of Justice, especially at the beginning of the year erstwhile a squad was set up for the functioning of the medical chambers at the initiative of Ms Anna Maria Siarkowska of the United Right. This MP encouraged doctors to attend the meetings of the team, at which those, being accused by professional accountability advocates, were brought to the medical court due to expressing controversial views on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination. Then Marcin Warchoł undertook to give full legal support to the accused doctors.

That is why the initiative to apply for a thorough examination of the compliance with the constitution of the rules governing the functioning of the medical self-government comes, even though local governments besides include another professional groups specified as nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, laboratory diagnoses, pharmacists and legal professionals specified as lawyers, notaries and legal advisers. The existence of self-governments is guaranteed in accordance with Article 17(1) of the Constitution, which allows the creation of professional self-governments representing public trust professionals who care for the appropriate performance of these professions in the public interest and for its protection by means of the Act.

Currently, there is no detailed information on the Constitutional Court's website on this proposal, but for information on its submission by the lawyer General and its focus on examining the compatibility of respective articles of the Medical Chambers Act with the provisions of the Constitution. Among these articles is Article 2(1), which states that ‘Members of the medical chambers are the professional self-government of doctors and dentists’, Article 3, which states that ‘the area of activity of the individual regional medical chambers, their number and their premises shall be determined by the Chief Medical Council at the request of the territory medical board’, and Article 6, which states that ‘the doctor intending to prosecute a profession to which the territory medical board has granted the right to prosecute a profession shall besides be entered on the list of members of that medical chamber’.

This regulation boils down to the fact that, as with another professional groups, participation in medical self-government is compulsory for doctors. As a result, members of self-government cannot avoid being subject to the authority of medical courts.

The rule of compulsory membership in medical chambers was challenged, especially by doctors who for many years refused to pay contributions, including those which were compulsory. At the time, models of another countries were indicated, where membership of chambers is not required. However, the number of opponents to pay contributions was much higher than the opponents to the chambers themselves, in which most doctors did not actively participate.

Threat of winding up corrupt medical authorities

This subject has died earlier, but it is now coming back through the actions of Ziebra and Warchoł, who are campaigning to defend doctors expressing doubts about the government's strategy to combat COVID-19 and vaccination. In their view, the provisions of the Medical Self-government Act may conflict with Article 20 of the Constitution, which ensures that "a social marketplace economy based on the freedom of business, private property and solidarity, dialog and cooperation between the social partners", and Article 65, which states that "everyone is guaranteed freedom to choose and prosecute a profession and to choose a place of work".

“The proposal shows what was the plan to deal with professional self-governments if the United Right was to regulation the 3rd term,” says Łukasz Jankowski, president of the General Medical Chamber. He believes, however, that at the minute it is "an application without applicable implications": – we treat it as a desire for political existence or a liking to the environments protesting professional self-government.

Jakub Kosikowski, NIL's spokesman, believes that it is due to another local governments that no 1 will question the existence of the Medical Chamber. It would be the beginning of Pandora's box. All local governments could fall apart," he added.

These speeches show how much the chief leaders of the medical self-government are afraid, which are frequently financed by corrupt pharmaceutical companies open to pandora cans and exposure scams.