By Reuters Staff
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has received 24.6 million zlotys ($6.45 million) for ventilators it failed to receive at the start of the pandemic, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks past an ambulance near the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) temporary hospital organised at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
When coronavirus surged across Europe in April 2020 and hospitals were desperate for ventilators, Poland’s government turned to a little known company called E&K, which is owned by Andrzej Izdebski who has been identified as an arms dealer.