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| Known for | health funding activism, founding member of Consultative Council |
Katarzyna Pikulska is a Polish doctor and health funding activist. In 2020 she became a founding member of the Consultative Council created on 1 November 2020 in the context of the October 2020 Polish protests.
Childhood and education
Pikulska graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 2010, specialising in orthopedic surgery.
Medical career
As of October 2017, Pikulska was a resident doctor in orthopedics at a hospital in Lublin.
Pikulska carried out a medical mission in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2016. She spent a month of the mission in field hospitals twenty kilometres from the frontline of the Iraq–ISIL War. She went on her second international medical mission in Tanzania.
In 2018 she planned to travel to Western Africa on her third international medical visit to provide medical help. She described her aim as working "where people really need help, where doctors' work is highly valued" because she enjoys her work.
Medical rights activism
2017 trainee doctors' protest
Pikulska is a member of the All-Poland Doctors' Trade Union (Template:Lang-pl) (OZZL), which was involved in a hunger strike that started on 2 October 2017 by twenty doctors at a children's hospital in Warsaw. According to Pikulska, the trigger for the strike was the death from overwork of four doctors in Poland within a single week. One of the deceased doctors had been Pikulska's colleague who had returned home after a 37-hour shift.
The doctors wanted state financing of the health budget to be raised to 6.8 percent of the Polish gross domestic product within three years, and to 9 percent within ten years. They also wanted reduced bureaucracy, shorter queues, more medical personnel, better working conditions and higher salaries.
A meeting of the health commission of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, visited the hospital. Pikulska stated that the striking doctors would participate in the sitting "only and uniquely as observers". She stated that the doctors weren't politicians and didn't want to become politicians. She claimed that politicians had tried to politicise the protest for two years and had failed. She and other doctors wore t-shirts displaying the words "hunger strike". They suspended their hunger strike during the meeting, which failed to find a solution to the doctors' demands.
On 14 October, Telewizja Polska (TVP) reacted to the protests by publishing a claim on News that Pikulska and the other protesting doctors were rich, took luxurious holidays in exotic countries, drove expensive cars, and lived on caviar and wine, based on photos found on the world wide web.
Pikulska stated that the car was borrowed for a few hours and that she recently sold her 20-year old car and bought a 10-year old car. She stated that she had been in Kurdistan and Tanzania as part of Polish medical help programs, one directly managed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. OKO.press stated that TVP had in 2016 reported on her mission to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Pikulska stated that the TVP report resulted in a wave of cyberbullying aiming to blacken her name and distract attention from the protests. Pikulska described an apology from the head of TVP on Twitter as insufficient for reaching the general public, and that the apology should be broadcast in normal TVP programming. Pikulska sued TVP, with the first court sittings scheduled on 19 November 2019 and 16 April 2020.
The overall hunger strike continued to 30 October 2017. Pikulska fasted for nine days. It gained support from associations of other medical specialties, with 200 people hunger-striking around Poland.
Consultative Council
In 2020 Pikulska was one of the founding members of the Consultative Council that was created on 1 November 2020 in the context of the October 2020 Polish protests.
See also
References
- ^ Szczęśniak, Agata (2017-10-15). "Oczerniona przez TVP lekarka przysyła nam zdjęcia z pracy na misjach. Te same „Wiadomości" w 2016 r. wychwalały dr Pikulską jako „bohaterską lekarkę"" [The doctor blackened by TVP sent us photos from her work missions. The same 'News' program called Dr Pikulska a heroic doctor in 2016]. OKO.press (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ Czarnacka, Agata (2020-11-01). "13 postulatów Strajku Kobiet. O co walczą?" [Women's Strike's thirteen demands. What are they fighting for?]. Polityka (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ "Protest rezydentów. Wyjazdowe posiedzenie sejmowej komisji zdrowia" [Trainee doctors' protest. Mobile sitting of the Sejm health commission]. Interia (in Polish). 2017-10-13. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ Karwowska, Anita; Paś, Waldemar (2020-10-27). "Dymisja rządu i Julii Przyłębskiej. Czego jeszcze żąda Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet? Co się wydarzy w środę 28 października?" [Government and Julia Przyłębska to resign. What else does All-Poland Women's Strike want? What will happen on Wednesday 28 October?]. Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- ^ Bogaczyk, Gabriela (2018-03-20). "Kandydatka na Lubliniankę: Głodówka to był akt desperacji" [Candidate for Lublin woman of the year]. Kurier Lubelski (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ "Lekarka z tekstu tvp.info o rezydentach i kawiorze: Przeprosiny na Twitterze nie wystarczą". Dziennik.pl (in Polish). 2017-10-18. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ Leniarska, Zuzanna (2018-09-20). "Katarzyna Pikulska" [Katarzyna Pikulska]. Archiwum Osiatyńskiego (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- Romanowska, Dorota (2019-11-17). "'To, co o niej powiedziano w TVP, wykracza poza normy przyzwoitości'. Zaczyna się proces" ['What TVP said about her was unconscionable'. The lawsuit is starting]. Newsweek Polska (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- "Lekarz kontra TVP. Proces o godność przy wsparciu NRL" [Doctor against TVP. Lawsuit for libel supported by High Medical Council]. Gazeta Lekarska (in Polish). 2020-11-06. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-06.