[Duties of institutions and heads of health care centers in the area of infection control, information, assessment, registration and financing of benefits provided to TB patients].

The Act on preventing and counteracting infections and infectious diseases in humans effective in Poland requires the heads of health care outlets and institutions to counteract spreading of TB in units under their management. They are, by all means, responsible for monitoring infections in their respective units, including development, implementation and monitoring of the implementation of procedures into practice, aiming at limiting the dissemination of TB in hospitals and outpatient clinics. Medical service unit managers are also responsible for providing members of their staff with means of individual protection against infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus. Their duties also include reporting all of the recognized TB cases in their respective units. TB is an infectious diseases included in the occupational disease list. Assessment of TB as an occupational disease is the responsibility of provincial TB prevention clinics. The Act also provides principles of financing of individual benefits available for the insured TB patients as well as those not insured.