The case concerning questions about the cooperation between St. Łukasz Hospital in Bolesławiec and MEDASK is to be heard by the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Wrocław.
The istotne.pl editorial team filed an objection to a decision signed by hospital director Kamil Barczyk. He is also a councillor of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship assembly and a local activist of the Polish People's Party.
The dispute concerns public information. The editorial team asked the hospital about its cooperation with MEDASK sp. z o.o., including the number of services provided, the amounts paid to the company and the revenue obtained by the ZOZ from providing those services.
The hospital initially provided only a partial response. It stated, among other things, that the contract with MEDASK has been in force from 1 October 2023 to 1 October 2026, and that settlements are based on a rate per service and the number of patients admitted. However, it refused to disclose the most important numerical data, citing business secrecy.
The editorial team filed an application for the case to be reconsidered. The hospital initially called on it to remedy a formal deficiency in that application, indicating that the letter of 29 April 2026 needed to be signed. The request therefore expressly concerned the application for reconsideration, not the original email containing questions about public information.
The deficiency was remedied that same day. The signed document was sent to the hospital via e-Deliveries on 12 May 2026, and the confirmation shows that the correspondence was received and collected by the ZOZ on the same day.
Despite this, the hospital director issued another decision on 26 May 2026. This time, he revoked the previous refusal and referred the case for reconsideration. In its reasoning, the hospital stated that the problem allegedly concerned not the application for reconsideration but the original application initiating the proceedings. According to the hospital, an ordinary email containing questions did not meet the formal requirements because it was not provided with an electronic signature or submitted through the appropriate ICT system.
In the editorial team's view, this position is incorrect.
A request for public information can be submitted by ordinary email. It does not have to bear a qualified electronic signature or be sent via ePUAP or e-Deliveries. Moreover, the hospital itself had previously treated the email as effective: it responded to it, provided some of the information and issued a refusal decision regarding the remainder.
Only after the appeal was filed did the institution begin to challenge the formal effectiveness of the original email.
In the objection to the WSA, we write that the hospital should not have procedurally “reset” the case, but should have examined it on its merits. The issue is an answer to a simple question: how much public money goes to a private company providing services to hospital patients?
The case is significant because MEDASK operates at a public hospital and provides healthcare services to patients. The documents show that people professionally connected with the hospital are among those associated with the company. Karolina Barczyk, the hospital director's wife, was also previously part of the company's structure.Karolina Barczyk, the hospital director's wife.
The objection will be submitted to the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Wrocław. The court will assess whether the hospital director could revoke the previous decision and send the case back for reconsideration because of the alleged formal deficiency of the original email.
The most important questions remain unanswered: how much money was paid to MEDASK, how many services were provided and what is the value of the contract with the hospital.
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