WARSAW, Poland — Poland announced plans Thursday to significantly increase spending on health care as a hunger strike by young doctors demanding more funding entered its third week. Poland’s health care system is chronically underfunded and there are often months-long waiting lists for medical procedures. A few dozen young doctors have been staging a hunger strike at a children’s hospital in Warsaw and were recently joined by groups in Szczecin, in the northwest, and in the central city of Lodz. They are demanding an increase in the health care budget to 6.8 per cent of GDP by 2021, much higher than the government offer. Some street protests were held last week in support of the doctors.

Source: National Post October 19, 2017 17:26 UTC