{"id":7493,"date":"2026-06-30T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/another-scandal-at-southern-hospital-allegations-of-funeral-industry-profiteering\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:49:33","slug":"another-scandal-at-southern-hospital-allegations-of-funeral-industry-profiteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/another-scandal-at-southern-hospital-allegations-of-funeral-industry-profiteering\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Scandal at Southern Hospital: Allegations of Funeral Industry Profiteering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports by Zero.pl, the Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has launched investigations into systemic irregularities, including fraudulent billing by a former councilor and suspicious practices within the hospital&#8217;s morgue.  <\/p>\n<h4>Investigations into Billing Fraud and Oversight<\/h4>\n<p>The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has initiated two investigations following reports by Zero.pl. One involves 28-year-old physician and former KO councilor Dawid Kacprzyk, who allegedly collected payment for shifts he did not work. Financial declarations reveal the resident doctor earned nearly 1.6 million PLN in one year through his private business activity.<\/p>\n<p>The second investigation concerns the potential failure of oversight by hospital authorities and Warsaw city officials regarding their professional duties.<\/p>\n<h4>Morgue Irregularities and Forged Death Certificates<\/h4>\n<p>On May 12, investigators opened a probe into the suspected forgery of death certificates for 20 individuals at the Southern Hospital morgue. These documents were allegedly signed by an unauthorized person using the seal of morgue coordinator Artur Habowski, who was on leave at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Artur Habowski serves as the morgue coordinator and is also the president of Pros-Med, a company specializing in funeral industry equipment and services. His business partner is a co-founder of a funeral home in the Ursyn\u00f3w district of Warsaw.<\/p>\n<h4>Coercion and Professional Misconduct<\/h4>\n<p>Informants claim Habowski pressured families to use his business partner&#8217;s funeral home. Those who chose other providers reportedly faced harassment and significant obstacles in retrieving bodies or documentation.<\/p>\n<p>One woman reported being forced to walk past corpses during an identification process and being treated dismissively by Habowski after declining his services. Notably, death certificates at Southern Hospital are issued in the morgue, rather than the standard statistics or administrative departments.<\/p>\n<h4>Unauthorized Training and Social Media Activity<\/h4>\n<p>Zero.pl discovered that Habowski used the bodies of deceased patients for private training sessions on embalming and funeral preparation conducted on hospital premises without the families&#8217; knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Habowski allegedly posted graphic images of human remains on Instagram, many of which were flagged as disturbing content. Reports also suggest he attempted to rent out the hospital morgue as a film location, advertising his access to hearses and coffins on social media.<\/p>\n<h4>Lack of Accountability<\/h4>\n<p>Artur Habowski declined to answer questions, citing his status as an injured party in the ongoing prosecutor&#8217;s investigation. Former Southern Hospital director Artur Krawczyk claimed no knowledge of these events, and his successor, Anna \u0141ukasik, provided no response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports by Zero.pl, the Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has launched investigations into systemic irregularities, including fraudulent billing by a former councilor and suspicious practices within the hospital&#8217;s morgue. Investigations into Billing Fraud and Oversight The Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office has initiated two investigations following reports by Zero.pl. One involves 28-year-old physician and former KO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}