On Friday, January 9, a press conference was held at the District Office with the participation of Lower Silesian Deputy Voivode Artur Jurkowski, Bolesławiec County Governor Tomasz Gabrysiak, Deputy County Governor Patryk Hałka, director of St. Luke’s Hospital in Bolesławiec Kamil Barczyk and Alina Zarembecka of the Bolesławiec County Board.

View photo: Conference at the District Office in Bolesławiec View photo: Conference at the District Office in Bolesławiec View photo: Conference at the District Office in Bolesławiec

The meeting presented information on how Bolesławiec County and St. Luke’s Hospital in Bolesławiec allocated funds under the Population Protection and Civil Defence Programme in 2025.

A total of PLN 5,639,031.42 was obtained. The funds were allocated to infrastructure investments, the purchase of equipment and vehicles, additional equipment for civil-defence warehouses, and training for staff and services.

Investments in protective infrastructure

Professional documentation was prepared:

  • PLN 500,000 was allocated for shelter documentation, including the design of an S-O class shelter, an Emergency Shelter (MDS), and an underground passage connecting it with the hospital.
  • PLN 200,000—for documentation of a U-1 class hiding place, as well as a construction design for the expansion of the garage and archives.
  • Plans were prepared for an underground floor, to be used in the event of a crisis scenario, providing space for 60 beds, a three-person intensive care unit and an operating unit.

Purchase of vehicles and rescue equipment

  • PLN 1,000,000 was spent on the purchase of two medical transport vehicles.
  • PLN 553,991.46 was allocated for another medical transport vehicle for evacuation and medical security.
  • The purchase of two modular flood-control containers cost PLN 100,000.
  • PLN 50,000 was allocated for the purchase of an alarm siren.

Medical equipment

PLN 2,956,639.96 was allocated for specialist medical equipment. Among other things, the following were purchased:

  • 7 cardiac monitors, 4 defibrillators, 4 portable ultrasound machines and 4 transport ventilators;
  • an operating table, an operating tower, a C-arm and 2 anaesthesia machines.

Engineering and quartermaster equipment, wastewater pumps and mobile power generators cost PLN 170,000. A further PLN 58,400 was allocated to supplement resources for providers of the State Emergency Medical Services.

Training

Training was not overlooked:

  • The basic training course in population protection and civil defence for staff of county offices and units cost PLN 11,000.
  • PLN 39,000 was spent on a Qualified First Aid Course, including the state examination.

Deputy Voivode Artur Jurkowski:

We are halfway through spending the funds because the programme being discussed today is designed to run for two years: 2025 and 2026. PLN 356 million appeared in Lower Silesia last year. These PLN 365,000,000 were distributed among individual beneficiaries. More than PLN 270 million went to local governments: counties and municipalities in Lower Silesia.

This year, a similar pool will be distributed among local governments, with comparable amounts. Municipalities already have a general idea of what they want to allocate the funds to. The counties have also identified their list of needs for the current year.

I would also like to inform you that this programme will continue in subsequent years, because we will not manage to build civil defence within the next two years. We will continue implementing and building the foundations of civil defence in Lower Silesia.

County Governor Tomasz Gabrysiak:

The basis for spending these funds was the money we obtained from the Lower Silesian Voivode, for which I sincerely thank him. The goal is to increase the safety of county residents and strengthen crisis-response systems.

The total amount of funds obtained in 2025 was PLN 5,639,031.42, of which PLN 2.6 million was received directly by Bolesławiec County. PLN 3 million was spent by St. Luke’s Hospital, our county hospital in Bolesławiec.

Director Kamil Barczyk on the comprehensive outfitting and modernization of the Emergency Medical Service in Bolesławiec:

Four rescue teams received a very large amount of medical equipment. We also modernized and completely refitted the ambulances that operate throughout Bolesławiec County every day. Three new ambulances, as well as modern equipment for the four emergency medical teams, including defibrillators, ventilators and ultrasound machines, plus a great deal of other medical equipment. This means that we can now say that we have one of the most modern emergency medical services in Poland.