We are sharing an IBOMA.MEDIA film project as a record of the period of the greatest loss of life among Polish women and men in post-war Poland.
The film opens with a shocking account by Prof. Piotr Kuna (a member of the board of the Polish Society of Allergology) from a so-called
COVID hospital, where one of his acquaintances was locked in. However, the film contains more moving accounts.
As a result of the pandemic and the chaos in primary healthcare, 200,000 people died in Poland, and no one thought about a national mourning period. Both films pose this question: Should there be a national mourning period for the victims of the pandemic? And there is an even more difficult question: Did so many people have to die?
Among those speaking in the films are: Prof. Andrzej Wojtyła, rector of the Kalisz Academy named after President Stanisław Wojciechowski; Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska, a specialist in virology and immunology at the Department of Virology and Immunology of the Institute of Biological Sciences of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and deputy director of the Institute; Dr. hab. Dorota Zarębska-Michaluk, professor at Jan Kochanowski University and deputy head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Regional Complex Hospital in Kielce; Aleksander Kwaśniewski – President of the Republic of Poland from 1995 to 2005; Prof. Irena Lipowicz, head of the Department of Administrative Law and Local Government of the Faculty of Law and Administration at UKSW; Prof. Wojciech Maksymowicz, deputy minister of science from 2019 to 2020 and minister of health and social welfare from 1997 to 1999; and Prof. Krzysztof Simon, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Medical University named after the Silesian Piasts in Wrocław.
The film Pandemic: A Time of Trial. You can watch it at this link.