Panas loses job as head of beleaguered National Health Fund

The fund, which has at its disposal almost zł.30 billion a year to spend on public health care services, is engulfed in a quagmire of chaos. Two months ago the majority of laws from which the NFZ was born were ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Tribunal, which also criticized the acts for making effective supervision of the institution practically impossible. Although Sikorski has openly called for the removal of Panas for some time, the decision was delayed because of difficulties in finding a new candidate for the job. (Rzeczpospolita, Mar. 6-7, p. A3) T.J.