Polfa Tarchomin under pressure following non-payment from hospitals

The reason for this is the hospitals insolvency and unpaid bills for delivered medicines. The hospitals poor economic situation might have much more serious consequences for the state-owned enterprise, as within several months it will decide whether to close the part of the plant which produces drugs for hospitals. "We are creating a contingency plan. If we do not manage to improve the rate of receiving payments, we will be forced to temporarily withdraw from these operations, as it currently brings more losses than profits," announced Andrzej Kleszczewski, Polfa Tarchomin President. If this happens, some 70% of Polfa's 400 employees will be forced to taken unpaid leave. Polfa has until now been cooperating with 700 hospitals nationwide, out of which only around 150 regularly pay their bills. The value of the well overdue payments (over 180 days) has reached zł. 22 million. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.K.