Healthcare Workers are copacetic

20.10.2021

Employees of the Medical University of Gdańsk and the University Centre of Maritime and Tropical Medicine: Dr. Habil. Wojciech Wołyniec (Division of Occupational, Metabolic and Internal Diseases), Małgorzata Sulima, Ph.D. (Division of Tropical & Parasitic Diseases) and nurse Ewa Pasek are among 30 medics honoured with the President of the City of Gdynia Award for Healthcare Workers (Nagroda Prezydenta Miasta Gdyni dla Pracowników Ochrony Zdrowia). The awards have been given traditionally on 18th of October 2021, in St. Luke (patron of healthcare workers) day.

– It’s a tradition of Gdynia, that we every year give healthcare workers the awards. It’s a gratitude – in behalf of all Gdynia citizens – to workers of all professional groups of healthcare for their everyday work. How difficult in this tough time of pandemic – said city’s President Wojciech Szczurek.

– Today, we will honour 30 people connected with medical professions. It’s a physician, nurses, midwives, but also other medical professions. People, who became famous in the last year for caring for the health of the inhabitants of our city. We will be presenting the President’s awards to these people. Gdynia is one of the few cities where the President gives such awards to healthcare workers. I have no doubts, that today we will have the opportunity to meet those people, who have engaged in a special way in all the activities that allowed us to feel healthy today. – added Bartosz Bartoszewicz, Vice-President of Gdynia for Life Quality.

Gdynia’s medics have been awarded since 1998. In more than 20 years, almost 500 people involved in local health care were awarded, including 13 doctors, 13 nurses and midwives, and 4 people working in a different medical profession.

A video report from the event and the full list of winners is available on the Polish-language website of the City Hall of Gdynia.

Photo gdynia.pl