Medical / Healthcare Questions in smaller towns in Poland

Hello :)
This is my first real post here and I just want to say I'm glad to meet you all!
Okay, I have a few questions about the healthcare in the smaller towns in Poland. I have been thinking about moving my family to Poland, and am rather taken with the beautiful, but remote Zakopane. I have a soon to be six year old daughter who has moderate asthma. Would I experience any trouble finding adequate medical care for her there in a town of that size? I have also been looking at Gdansk. Are there any hospitals there that specialize in children's care? My daughter has been hospitalized about three times in the last year at a children's hospital for pneumonia and asthma flares. Each time about 3-4 days. I guess I just want to make sure there are trauma specialists for her demographic around if need be.

Thanks a lot :)
Btw, I just want to mention how hard it is to convey these kinds of questions without sounding like some sort of jerk. I hope not to ever offend anyone with my lack of knowledge on all things Polish. But trying to learn and seek information about a new culture without sounding arrogant can be tricky!! I'm sorry if I ever seem anything than a true lover of your country :)

Alpine air conditions are very beneficial for asthmatics, so maybe Zakopane would be a smart choice. Moreover in this town is Specialist Respiratory Hospital (lung disease care).

Of course in Gdansk are located hospitals (children care also) which accept and cure patients with pneumonia and asthma flares.
So the choice is yours.

I read that the costs of dental work in Hungry costs half what it costs in the United States with Hungry having quality services.
How does dental work in Poland compare, quality wise, to what you may get in Hungry ?
I have heard of many horror stories of the dentistry in Poland.
Would it be cost effect for a Polish citizen to go to Hungry for their dental work ?

Not really until they can afford to Johnny,Poland is very compatable and way cheaper and I can vouch for it first hand but getting expensive at a fast pace.

@Johhny: maybe in the USA (and also in the west more generally) it is more expensive but the quality is higher. Just in 2015, I had a crown that fell off although I got it done some 18 months before and had to have it reglued and had to have the same filling done 3 times . I have crowns done years ago in SEVERAL western European countries and 0 problem. Better than that, I had some dental work done in the US some ... 30 years ago and every time, I mention to a dentist in Poland that maybe for cosmetic reasons, I could have it redone, they all say that it is very good and nothing needs to be done. It was some 30 years ago!

Sure in countries like Hungary, Poland and so forth, it is cheaper but I doubt that the results will last as long.

PS to OP: 1. Zakopane is not in the .... Alps ;) and 2. the pollution is extremely high especially in winter because of way of heating so most probably not the best area for people suffering from asthma and more generally for anybody.

Thanks buddy, so the article I read must have been posted by the Hungary Dentist Council. lol
It's not fun anymore to intentionally spell words wrong (Hungry) as they no longer take the bait. :-(


I had no idea you were so old.
Thank you for your help also.

@Johnny: the work done in the US is still very good and all the dentists I have approached in Poland to make it look it be better don't want to do anything about it as they all have said, it does not need to be changed ;). Yes, it was (close to) 30 years ago (or maybe 25, I don't remember) and in those days I was very very young ;). I wish you and anybody to become very very old while being in excellent health ;)

There are different dentists in Poland. Some of them are excellent, some are poor and using their service my result in losing your teeth in the future. Usually the private ones are better than those having contract with NFZ (so that some range of basic services is free of charge for Polish and EU citizens, for example filling of the front teeth; in case of the back teeth free is only old-fashioned mercury-based filling), but this is not a strict rule. There are some really bad private and very good NFZ ones.

Thank you pani InPolska,I am pushing 55 and run 5 miles everyday .
Again Johnny depends where you go.4/5 yrs back i got my wisdom tooth taken out 1 in usa which costed me 800$ with gas,the doc just slapped the mask on and in cpl mins took out the tooth and another one I got it out at some clinic on Electrajlna street in Warsaw.They charged me almost 175$ same procedure with gas,better, cleaner clinic and even the doctors gave me a choice of 5 flavours of gas.Even my wife got her implants there, been almost 10 years and all is fine.

I had 4 of my teeth out (at different times) without any gas, just some injections and voila...all was well. This was in a private dentist in Krakow. Cost approx. 200-300 pln each).