The health ministry has said it will initiate a review of the teaching
material with the aim of bringing it up to date but this may take some time
owing to legal procedures.
This response promoted immediate accusations of foot-dragging.
“For 10 years the ministry did not mind that nurses and midwives learnt
content that was both discriminatory and hurtful for sexual minorities, and
now it doesn’t seem to mind that the content will still be taught until it
ends a bureaucratic procedure for establishing new programmes,”
commented Zosia Jablonska, an equal-rights campaigner.
The scandal raises further question marks over Poland’s liberal credentials
following racism allegations in a BBC Panorama documentary. Although
homophobic attitudes in Poland are on the wane they are still encounter
conservative opposition, especially in the countryside.
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