Pulse oximeters from a perfume dealer, overpaid - several times over - medical equipment, tens of thousands of zlotys spent on analyses and consultations, contractors without experience. This, in one sentence, is how one can summarize the information that Tuesday's Gazeta Wyborcza reports on the Health Ministry's purchases in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Importantly, much of the spending reported by the Journal, based on information provided by the ministry to Health Committee Chairman Bartosz Arlukowicz, is not at all about the first weeks of the pandemic, when indeed chaos reigned in the global market for medical devices in the broadest sense, and transactions that would not have been justifiable in normal times were possible and even sometimes necessary. No, here we are also talking about the second half of 2020, even the end - when the world, despite successive COVID-19 strikes, in ...
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