Last spring, acting Chief Sanitary Inspector (GIS), Krzysztof Saczka, announced that the institution he manages will receive nearly PLN 28 million for . The funds came from the program under priority axis VII REACT-EU support for the health area of the Knowledge Education Development Operational Program.
The main goal of the program was, among others, “increasing soft skills and knowledge of the Ukrainian language of employees of PIS units, employing people fleeing from Ukraine in connection with the armed conflict in Ukraine in Inspection bodies throughout the country.” It was about employing at least 181 refugees from Ukraine in sanitary inspection bodies throughout the country, it says. The program started in September last year. The GIS spokesman said that the current value of funds settled under this project is nearly PLN 20 million.
Health-promoting program for refugees. “Start your day with a glass of warm water”
He added that the money was spent, among others, for a “health program for Ukrainian citizens”. In this case, the Ombudsman pointed to materials posted on the institution’s website. Money.pl emphasizes that attention is drawn, among others, to leaflets on the rules of picking mushrooms and the advantages of drinking water, available in Polish and Ukrainian. “Start the day with a glass of warm water. After the night, we often feel dry in the mouth. It is worth starting the day with the habit of drinking water right after waking up,” advise the authors of the program. The materials also include leaflets for refugees about mushroom picking. “The advice included in the brochure includes information that when picking mushrooms ‘it is necessary to know the most popular species of edible and poisonous mushrooms’. We learn that mushrooms should not be picked in ‘polluted areas'” – says money.pl .
Program copied from another program
The portal notes that the refugee program was not created last year, but as part of the previous edition of the ‘Strengthening sanitary and epidemiological surveillance of Poland’ program implemented in 2014-2020. Money from the European Social Fund has already been spent for this purpose. “In practice, in 2023, the content of the materials prepared for the previous program was simply rewritten and used again as a health-promoting program for Ukrainian citizens. The only additional action was the translation of leaflets developed several years earlier into Ukrainian,” we read. When asked how many people from Ukraine were ultimately employed under the program, the GIS spokesman gave the number as 300, which is more than planned. Most of the refugees were employed to help in offices, with minor maintenance work in sanitary inspection buildings, and as cleaners.
Source: Gazeta
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