Canada’s stockpile of ventilators went from 500 pre-pandemic to 27,000 now. The federal government had awarded multiple contracts to produce ventilators before a dramatic drop in their use at the end of 2020.
The total cost of the ventilators was more than $807 million, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) told The Canadian Press.
Many of the contracts were awarded in the spring of 2020. Doctors later realized that ventilators were not always good to use for COVID cases, especially for elderly patients with chronic conditions.
Early in the pandemic, the federal government also spent $190 million on four mobile field hospitals. Only one was used for a few dozen patients, and the other three were never used. The government is now spending about $600,000 monthly to store them, PSPC told The Epoch Times in December….