Loading ...Canada has a massive surplus of unused ventilators
Some 25,000 are now in the national emergency strategic stockpile.
More than half of the 40,000 ventilators the Canadian government ordered early in the pandemic are now sitting unused in the federal emergency stockpile.
Just over 2,000 of the ventilators have been deployed, either in Canada or abroad. Ottawa is now working to cancel orders for ventilators that have yet to be delivered, but won’t say how much it has paid for the machines.
One of the firms contracted for the ventilators, Baylis Medical Company, is owned by former Liberal MP Frank Baylis. The firm received a $237 million contract for the ventilators, which Baylis insisted that the government must pay in advance.
The Journal de Montréal had done the initial investigation that revealed the Liberal government overpaid by nearly $100 million when it came to this contract. One of the more prominent ventilator manufacturers from Ireland Medtronic sells the entry-level ventilator for $13,141 CAD. Although the ventilators for Canadians are based on this model from Medtronic, Baylis Medical charged the government $23,700 CAD per unit. This means that the Canadian government overpaid more than $10,000 CAD per unit amounting to the larger $100 million in overpayments for all units.
The Department of Health, under the leadership of Health Minister Patty Hajdu, purchased $700 million worth of ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic to help Canadians suffering with respiratory disease.
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Cripes. Gov’t printing and wasting money by the hour and no one gives a shit or calls them on it. Then all the face-rag-wearing zombies wonder why we have a problem with inflation 🙁