Ahead of a Cabinet meeting, Tusk said an audit he had requested from the country's Supreme Audit Office (NIK) would look beyond individual irregularities to the systemic flaws enabling them.
"It is the result of bad systemic solutions, but also sometimes the indecency of certain people, a lack of oversight," he said.
He cited extreme shift lengths logged by medical staff, including one ambulance worker who clocked up 488 hours in a month and a doctor who worked 120 hours straight – warning this endangered patients.
"I am counting on very swift action, while we are also facing a very serious conversation with the leadership of the National Health Fund (NFZ)," he said, calling for stricter enforcement of existing rules and "common sense."
He asked the justice and health ministers to draft joint recommendations, including on how to stop people skipping queues for public healthcare.
NIK spokesman Bartłomiej Pograniczny said the shift figures came from an audit of emergency medical services, due in late July, with reports on clinical hospitals expected by late June and on Warsaw's Południowy Hospital in early July.
Asked if talks with NFZ bosses meant its head would be sacked, government spokesman Adam Szłapka said it was "for now just an announcement of talks."
The scrutiny follows reports that a former city councillor, a doctor still in training, earned PLN 1.6 million (EUR 370,000) in 2025 at Południowy Hospital.
The hospital is now under audit by the NFZ and Warsaw authorities, alongside a city-wide review of emergency departments.
Two criminal investigations into the facility opened on Monday, over alleged fraud and abuse of power linked to breaches of emergency-room triage rules.
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Source: PAP