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Posted on 09/15/2025 2:42:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
On 12 September, a press conference was held at NIK headquarters where the results of three NIK’s audits on the COVID-19 pandemic were presented. The key issues included: preparation and operation of the state in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic, creation and functioning of temporary hospitals and payment of benefits to medical staff due to the COVID-19 prevention and control.
In the beginning there was chaos
When the first case of SARS-CoV-2 was identified in Poland in March 2020, responsible state authorities and institutions, medical entities and services were not prepared for the epidemic outbreak – the NIK audit reveals. Nevertheless, the authorities did not declare the state of natural disaster. Instead, via a Special Act on COVID-19, they amended the provisions of law, under which even stricter restrictions, bans and orders were imposed. Besides, the Special Act lifted mechanisms ensuring proper public spending. As a result, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Health wasted PLN 82.3 million on defective and non-functional ventilators which did not comply with the Polish norms. NIK filed three reports to the prosecutor’s office concerning that issue.
The defective ventilators often posed a threat to patient safety and so they could not be used to control the epidemic.
Since a range of provisions implemented under the Special Act on COVID-19 raised significant doubts, the NIK President submitted two motions to the Constitutional Tribunal to confirm that some provisions of the Special Act and of the so-called amending act do not comply with the Polish Constitution.
14 unnecessary temporary hospitals for over PLN 600 million
Temporary hospitals in Poland were built in Poland since October 2020 on a scale unseen in Europe, without any plan or reliable analysis of the epidemiological situation or availability of medical staff, and also without any cost calculation – NIK established. According to the Polish SAI over PLN 612.6 million was spent ineffectively and without purpose on the creation, functioning and liquidation of temporary hospitals located in large-format buildings.
Nearly PLN 31.5 million was spent on three facilities there were created but never opened. Over PLN 29 million of that amount was used to establish and maintain a temporary hospital in Szczecin, where not a single patient was admitted.
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They can’t use them for other medical purposes?
Still what a colossal waste of money and resources.
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