Waldemar Kraska announced the latest figures at a meeting with lawmakers from Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party on Thursday, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
He stressed that Ukrainian patients were receiving the same kind of medical treatment that is available to Polish citizens.
Those displaced by the war are most often hospitalised due to hypothermia, Kraska said, adding that 237 Ukrainian patients have COVID-19 and 242 have caught various other infectious diseases.
The biggest numbers of Ukrainian refugees are being treated in hospitals in the eastern Polish provinces of Lubelskie and Podkarpackie, Kraska told the meeting.
Treatment across borders
Meanwhile, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski has appointed a commissioner to coordinate the treatment of Ukrainian citizens in other countries in Europe, Kraska said.
Many refugee patients, including child cancer sufferers, are already being transferred to Western European countries such as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Norway for further treatment, Kraska added.
Thursday was day 29 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Poland on Thursday reported it had welcomed 2.2 million refugees fleeing Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Earlier this month, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda signed into law a wide-ranging package of support for Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their country.
The measure grants them legal stay in Poland and ensures access to education, healthcare and social benefits.
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Source: IAR