Long waiting time for appointments with specialists, poor access to modern treatment and no nationwide medical register are just some of the ills of the health care system in the country, writes Dziennik.

Press reviewed by Agnieszka Bielawska

Health service collapses, heralds Dziennik. Public health care in Poland is one of the worst in Europe reads a report prepared by Brussels concerning the respect of patients’ rights. Poland ranks 25th , somewhere at the end of the list, writes Dziennik, while Denmark, Germany and Finland are a haven for patients.
Poland fails on every possible front, writes the daily: access to medicines, access to new medical technologies not to mention queues at the doors of specialists or waiting lists for surgeries. Following the data Dziennik decided to verify how bad the situation really is and found out that: in certain regions of Poland, a patient has to wait 88 months for hip replacement, 30 months for a visit at a dental surgeon. Some six months can pass before treatment of diagnosed breast tumor or one month to see a child neurologist. This is unbelievable but true writes the paper. What is more, due to the lack of general register of doctors, Poles have no chance to confront one diagnosis with another, that is if they do not believe one doctor and want to consult another they have to go through the waiting procedure over again.
 
Gazeta Wyborcza comments that the turnout at the polls to European Parliament will be very scanty, though euro enthusiasts are on alert  giving chances to the ruling Civic Platform and the opposition Democratic Left Alliance. Quoting the results of a poll conducted by the CBOS agency Gazeta writes that both in elections to the Lower House and to the European Parliament the Civic Platform is in the lead overtaking the opposition conservative Law and Justice by 50% to 24%. This is due writes the paper, to the fact that the Civic Platform and its electorate are euro enthusiasts, ready to show up at the June polls to European Parliament. Those who declare taking part in the elections are primarily people with higher education, inhabitants of large cities and well off. However, only 39% of those polled are willing to vote for the Euro deputies, in case of local parliamentary elections the turnout may be higher even up to 54% writes Gazeta Wyborcza.
 
The government is ready to introduce introduce a scrap-for-new scheme to boost car sales with an incentive payment of up to one and a half thousand euros per vehicle, writes Rzeczpospolita  This may lead to a drop of car prices say analysts. Rzeczpospolita goes on to say that the additional payment would cover cars whose CO2 emissions do not exceed 155g/m. Additionally the payment would not burden the state budget since it is to come from the ecological tax.
 
And Adam Małysz without a moustache is a report front-paged in Fakt. The icon of Poland’s ski jumping, holder of medals and world cups, one of the most popular sportsmen in Poland, has apparently changed his image and decided to uncover his bright smile by shaving his characteristic large moustache. The daily shows a photo session of the sportsman at the mirror lavishly lathered   and then clean-shaven smiling brightly at the camera. Is this good news? asks Fakt. Well for one , the small, frail jumper looks much younger.