She can become Adam Niedzielski’s successor. Who is Katarzyna Sojka?

Mateusz Morawiecki announced that he had accepted Adam Niedzielski’s resignation as Minister of Health. The politician has been under fire since the weekend after he revealed that the medic had written himself a prescription for psychotropic or painkillers.

The prime minister proposed that Katarzyna Sójka, who is a member of the health committee, replace Niedzielski. – I am convinced that entrusting this function to Katarzyna Sójka is a good decision. Today, the deputy is well prepared for this role, she is a doctor, an internist, highly valued by patients, stressed the head of the government.

Katarzyna Sójka – who is it?

Katarzyna Sójka has a higher education. She graduated from the Medical University in Poznań. He is a doctor by profession, a specialist in internal medicine. She worked in hospitals in Ostrów Wielkopolski, where she was born, and in Kępno. She also worked in clinics in Mikstat and Ostrzeszów.

Katarzyna Sójka is also an engineer-forester. She graduated from the Poznań University of Life Sciences. Privately, he has three children. In 2018, starting from the lists of Law and Justice, she was elected a councilor of the Ostrzeszów poviat, where she became vice-president.

A year later, Katarzyna Sójka took part in the elections to the Sejm. She obtained a mandate starting from the 10th position in the Kalisz district. 15,860 people voted for it. During the current term of office, he has made 24 speeches at sessions of the Sejm. Katarzyna Sójka submitted 25 interpellations, two questions and eight questions on current matters, which were put into motion. As for the health committee, in 2022 it submitted only five interpellations.

Media statements of the PiS MP

Katarzyna Sójka is usually not the subject of media reports. In 2021, during a session of the Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, who was then chairing the Sejm, drew attention to her. The PiS MP took the child to the hall, around which several people gathered and started talking. The deputy marshal pointed out that such discussions made it difficult for their party colleague Grzegorz Matusiak to speak.

In turn, in mid-June 2023, she argued that the Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment on abortion had no impact on women’s deaths. – Unfortunately, women have died, are dying and will die, because it happens. Unfortunately, medical errors have been, are and will be, because unfortunately it also happens – stressed Sójka. As an example, she gave that in 2008, 19 pregnant women died, and in 2022, seven.