– In the law, even the unforeseen nature of tasks does not justify waste. – The rulers did not emergence to the challenge – the president of the Chief Audit Chamber, Marian Banaś, who presented a study resulting from 3 checks on the preparation and operation of state authorities, institutions and services in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic.
What is the consequence of the first control, by NIK entitled “In the beginning was chaos”? Among another things, what we've been talking about for a long time:
– the transformation of any hospitals into alleged single-named, i.e. only people with COVID-19, has resulted in a crucial regulation of access to infirmary treatment for patients not infected with SARS-CoV-2 and those who have previously been treated in those hospitals;
– incomplete, disabled or inadequate respirators were purchased. In addition, “a complex, multi-step procedure created a corruption mechanism”.
Second control NIK for “14 unnecessary temporary hospitals for over PLN 600 million”. It besides shows what we raised and a host of Poles accused of “filming” that:
– temporary hospitals were created without a thoughtful plan and did not respond to the real needs of the society, they were pointless due to the fact that there was a adequate reserve of beds in standard hospitals;
– temporary hospitals were created in sports halls and another facilities of this type, which was twice as costly per bed as hospitals in facilities intended for the provision of medical services. The costs of 14 specified large-area hospitals amounted to over PLN 612 million;
– from March 2020 to April 2022, the cost of maintaining all hospitals adapted to treat patients with COVID-19 was about PLN 7 billion. For actual treatment little than PLN 5 billion were spent;
– from March 2020 to April 2022 maintenance costs for all hospitals adapted to treat patients with COVID-19 amounted to around PLN 7 billion, and little than PLN 5 billion were spent on actual treatment;
– in 2020, more than 67 000 deaths were reported than in the erstwhile year, and in 2021 their number exceeded by nearly 154 000 average yearly values over the last 5 years. Excessive mortality was both the direct effect of COVID-19 and the effect of limiting access to benefits for patients with another diseases.
Z third control it follows that:
– The Minister of wellness allowed crucial defects in the strategy of granting covid additives. In 2020-2021, they were spent close to PLN 9 billion;
– the allowances were frequently paid to unauthorised persons.
NIK requested the Constitutional Court to establish that the provisions of the Covid-Constitutional peculiar Law were incompatible with the Constitution, and besides made 9 notifications to the Prosecutor's Office. 3 of them concern the acquisition of respirators, 2 – activities of the Minister of State Assets.
