Additional information on the incident, and the NMPT opinion issued on it, can be found in the post-visit report298. Personal protection measures Three of the juvenile educational centres299 reported problems, that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic, with access to disinfectants and personal protection equipment, i.e. face masks and gloves. The JEC in Łobżenica managed to get them only thanks to the commitment and private contacts of the managers. Later, the facility received the products from private institutions, the head of the voivodeship (i.e. regional) government, a ministry, MPs and the JEC’s managing authority; at the very beginning the JEC management had the impression that nobody was interested in their problem. The JEC in Mszana Dolna informed that it was only after a month that the Ministry of Health supplied the facility with hand disinfectants. Before, the centre director received them through his private contacts (there were shortages of such products in pharmacies). Later, the managing authority ensured the supply of the products and transferred funds also for purchase masks and gloves. The director of JEC in Mrowiny, on the other hand, reported that the centre had difficulties in obtaining sufficient amounts of personal protection measures within the first two or three weeks. At that time, the facility did not have any support from external institutions. The management ensured the purchase of face masks, gloves and hand sanitizers; the funds for this purpose were allocated from the "regular" budget of the centre. After two weeks, the Ministry of National Education provided the JEC with all the products needed for protection against the coronavirus: soaps, disinfectants, face masks and gloves. Since then, there have been no problems with funds for such products. Moreover, the head of the county government also provided the centre with non-contact thermometers, one for each group. The director of JEC no. 3 in Łódź reported that as regards the supply of personal protection measures, until May 2020 the centre had received no support at all and had no such measures. They sewed face masks by themselves; they also supplied some masks to a local public health centre. Liquid disinfectant was also made by themselves using home-made methods. Only during the summer holidays the centre was allocated money for the purchase of disposable masks and disinfectant dispensers. The purchased amounts were sufficient for the next months. The JEC also received 100 litters of liquid disinfectant from the Ministry of National Education. In addition, the Łódź Sanitary Inspector offered testing to all juveniles returning from the summer holidays; this offer was highly appreciated by the centre’s management. The director of the centre also mentioned that the protection measures were 298 See: Report of the representatives of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture on the remote monitoring visit to the non-public juvenile educational center in Łańcut, held on 0 December 2020, file ref. no. KMP.573.10.2020.JJ. 299 JEC in Łobżenica, JEC in Mszana Dolna and JEC in Mrowiny. 113