IT IS REMINDED AS FOLLOWS:
- All students, PhD students and employees of the Wroclaw Medical University ARE OBLIGATED TO WEAR MASKS on the university premises and in other locations, where the clinical classes are held – according to the Rector’s Ordinance no. 247/2021 – and to ABIDE BY THE RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS available at https://ed.umw.edu.pl/content/updated-procedure-dealing-sars-cov-2-infection-and-suspicion-sars-cov-2-infection-students-0
- In case of confirmed Sars-Cov-2 infection, contact with Sars-Cov-2 infected person or in case of symptoms, which may indicate Sars-Cov-2 infection, all students, PhD students and employees of the Wroclaw Medical University MUST FOLLOW THE APPROPRIATE PROCEDURE (referred to as “PATH”)
- A failure to comply with the obligations indicated in the procedure can result in severe DISRUPTION OF THE WMU FUNCTIONING, including difficulties in conducting didactic classes (even suspension of classes).
A VIOLATION OF AFOREMENTIONED OBLIGATIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR
CONCEALING THE FACT OF INFECTION, THREATENS THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF MANY PEOPLE AND RESULT IN:
DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY under the Higher Education Act (article 275 et seq.), the Labor Code Act (Article 108 and et seq.) and internal University regulations.
CONSEQUENCES: a warning, reprimand, suspension of certain student rights for up to 1 year; expulsion of the student from the University.
AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY for an offense or misdemeanor under the Criminal Code Act (Art. 161 § 2 and 3), the Petty Offences Code (Art. 116), and the National Sanitary Inspection Act (Art. 38)
CONSEQUENCES: imprisonment from one year to 10 years; imprisonment from 3 months to 5 years; imprisonment for up to 30 days; restriction of liberty; a fine; a reprimand.
Article 161 of the Criminal Code: § 2. Anyone who, knowing that he or she is afflicted with a venereal or contagious disease, a serious incurable disease or a potentially fatal disease, directly exposes another person to infection from that disease is liable to imprisonment from 3 months up to 5 years.
§ 3. If the offender of the act specified in § 2 exposes many persons to infection, he shall be subject to the penalty of imprisonment for between one to ten years.
Article 116 of the Code of Petty Offences: § 1. Whoever, knowing that:
1) is ill with tuberculosis, venereal disease or other infectious disease or suspected of having such disease,
2) comes into contact with a person suffering from a disease specified in subsection (1) or a person suspected of suffering from tuberculosis or another infectious disease,
3) is a carrier of a disease specified in item 1 or suspected of being a carrier - does not comply with prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations specified in regulations on preventing and combating infections and infectious diseases in humans or in regulations on State Sanitary Inspection or does not comply with decisions issued on the basis of these regulations by sanitary inspection authorities, shall be subject to a fine or reprimand.
§ 1a. Whoever does not comply with prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations specified in the regulations on preventing and combating infections and contagious diseases in humans, shall be subject to the penalty of a fine or the penalty of reprimand.
Article 38 of the National Sanitary Inspection Act:
(1) Whoever obstructs or frustrates the activities of the State Sanitary Inspection authorities shall be subject to a penalty of arrest for up to 30 days, a penalty of restriction of liberty or a fine.