Police officer wounded in Krakow shooting remains in serious condition, another surgery expected
Police officer Artur Moranski, who helped stop an armed attacker with a colleague in the Polish city of Krakow, is in stable but serious condition in hospital. Doctors say he faces at least one more complex operation.
A 27-year-old police officer, Artur Moranski, remains in hospital in the Polish city of Krakow after he and his patrol partner stopped an armed attacker in the city centre on 7 November. Doctors describe his condition as stable but serious and expect at least one more complex operation. The Lithuanian outlet Lrytas.lt reported the update.
Course of treatment
Moranski is being treated at Krakow's Fifth Military Clinical Hospital. On Wednesday, 11 November, he underwent wound revision and fixation of the elbow joint. The procedure was needed to prepare him for the following stages of treatment. He was woken up after the operation.
Pawel Maleta, head of the hospital's department of musculoskeletal reconstructive surgery and replantation, told reporters that the officer faces at least one more major operation and possibly several smaller procedures. The greatest threat at present is a severe chest injury, for which he had already been operated on at another Krakow hospital.
Doctors say the treatment will be complicated and carried out in several stages, with time between operations for the body to rest and recover. Hospital director Bartlomiej Guzik stressed that the officer needs calm so that treatment can go as well as possible and he can return to duty in future. Progress was fast at first, but a more difficult and lengthy phase has now begun.
The shooting in central Krakow
On 7 November, Moranski and colleague Jakub Kulik stopped an attacker who was firing at random passers-by on the city's main square. Both officers were wounded and taken to hospital. Six people were killed in the attack, and the seventh fatality was the 24-year-old gunman himself.
Doctors hope that if the chest injury treatment and further operations succeed, Moranski will be able to stay at the Krakow hospital until fully recovered.
