447 - How Kraków is Caring for the Health of 200,000
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In just a few weeks, Poland has welcomed more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees and 200,000 of them have come to the city of Kraków. Dr. Wojtek Szczelik, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how his hospital and the city are triaging care for refugees, how the pandemic has prepared the health care system to expand its capacity, and how the city is readying to accommodate military casualties. it is possible to donate to Dr. Szczelik's efforts to help Ukrainian refugees here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.5 | Today, I speak to Dr. Bointech Sheckcli, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician from |
| 0:48.7 | Krakow, Poland. |
| 0:50.7 | We speak about how his hospital and his city are adapting to the arrival of hundreds of thousands |
| 0:56.7 | of Ukrainian refugees and are readying themselves for military casualties. |
| 1:03.3 | Let's listen. |
| 1:04.9 | Dr. Voitech-Shekliq, thank you so much for joining me on Public Health On Call from Krakow, Poland. How are you doing today? |
| 1:13.3 | I'm doing well. Thank you. Thank you for having me, Dr. Schaftstein. Thank you. |
| 1:17.5 | So why don't we start by having you explain a little bit about your job and your hospital in Poland? |
| 1:25.4 | So I'm a doctor in Krakow, which is a city in a South of Poland, around 800,000 citizens, |
| 1:35.1 | so third largest city in Poland. |
| 1:37.7 | And actually one of the closest large cities to the Ukrainian border is about three hours |
| 1:44.0 | drive to the Ukrainian border. I'm an |
| 1:46.8 | intensivist and anesthetist, but with a general medicine background, and I chair a department of |
| 1:53.0 | anesthesia and intensive care in a military hospital in Krakow, which is one of the largest |
| 1:57.9 | hospitals in Krakow. And in the same time, a hospital which is supposed to hospitalize the war casualties |
| 2:05.4 | once they are able to transport the patients to Krakow. |
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