Here is today’s statement from Bolesławiec County:

In connection with information published on the local portal (istotne.pl – editor’s note) concerning Medask, the County Executive Board, at its meeting on May 4, adopted a resolution obliging the director of the district hospital in Bolesławiec to submit explanations in the matter by May 11. At the same time, it decided to conduct an inspection concerning the spending of funds transferred to the Bolesławiec hospital through county grants.

We were the first to write about the matter on April 29, in the article A company belonging to people from the hospital earns money from the hospital in Bolesławiec. The amounts remain secret. National media have now taken up the issue of the company.

Today, hospital director Kamil Barczyk told “Wyborcza” that the hospital pays Medask an average of PLN 714,515.07 per month. In 2025, this amounted to more than PLN 8.5 million in total.

For years, Medask has cooperated with Szpital św. Łukasza in Bolesławiec in providing outpatient specialist services. As we reported, this cooperation has raised questions about the transparency of financing and a possible conflict of interest.

The hospital refused to disclose the amounts paid to the company, citing business confidentiality, even though the funds come from the public healthcare system.

People professionally associated with the hospital, including doctors and individuals cooperating with the facility, appear in Medask’s structures. The very operating model also raises doubts: a public hospital uses the services of a private entity established by people linked to the facility’s professional community. Critics of this solution point out that even if everything formally complies with regulations, residents have the right to know how public money is spent and who actually benefits from this system.

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