Staffing problems Problems with ensuring proper care to residents occurred in some of the facilities. Employees of social policy departments of voivodeship offices often assisted in the search for volunteers or help provided by Territorial Defence Forces. In most of the facilities, the staffing situation was relatively stable. Long-term care and treatment facilities Epidemiological situation In connection with the pandemic, the NMPT analysed the situation in 10 long-term care and treatment facilities and nursing facilities where people who were at the greatest risk of infection were living. According to the official data presented to the Sejm 347 by Deputy Minister of Health Józefa Szczurek-Żelazko, from the beginning of the epidemic until 15 September, 965 patients had been infected in the long-term care and treatment facilities and nursing care facilities (i.e. 2.4% of all people living in such facilities within the year (about 40.7 thousand people). Cooperation with the State Sanitary Inspection Some of the institutions could not count on any support of local sanitary and epidemiological services, or their actions were significantly delayed. At the long-term care and treatment facility run by Caritas of the Warsaw Archdiocese348 after receiving information about the infection of one of the employees, a report was immediately sent to the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Station with the data of the patients and employees who had direct contact with the infected person. For the next few days, however, the managers of the facility did not receive any response from the station. It was decided to carry out tests to detect the presence of the coronavirus at the facility’s own expense. The Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Station started cooperation with the facility only after a few days, and then it only sent some recommendations regarding, inter alia, isolating infected patients from healthy ones, cohorting patients in patient rooms, the use of personal protective equipment by staff members, and the fumigation of rooms. 347 The Sejm of the 9th term of office, Office for the Parliamentary Committees. Full minutes of the session of the Senior Policy Committee (No. 10) of 6 October 2020. 348 Letter of 27 April 2020. 133