Revealing medical equipment to fight against Covid, worth almost “ten billion” In New York – never used!
Revealing medical equipment to fight COVID – Xinhua reported from Politics local media is United States of America It revealed that New York state authorities provided 8,555 ventilators worth US$166 million (about 6,200 million baht) and 1,179 X-ray machines worth more than 3,230 million baht.
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A total of 9,430 million baht to fight the COVID-19 pandemic But these tools are now kept in warehouses. And there are no plans to use it anytime soon.
File Photo: A ventilator, part of a shipment of 400, is displayed at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse, Tuesday, March 24, 2020 in New York. The state now has nearly 8,000 unused ventilators ordered in the early months of the pandemic. | Mark Lennihan/AP Mon
The report says that the treatment process for COVID-19 is now Most do not need a ventilator. And many hospitals have enough ventilators for emergency needs.
Politico is based on data from the American College of Thoracic Physicians. He notes that the US government has rushed to order nearly 200,000 ventilators worth more than 112 billion baht in 2020, but only half of the devices have the potential to help patients with the most serious conditions.
Meanwhile, California is rushing to acquire 14,000 ventilators, which later were rarely used. Canada itself has orders for 40,000 ventilators and more than half of them are not being used either.
File Photo: Medical supplies are displayed before a news conference with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Jacob Javits Center, Monday, March 23, 2020, in New York. | John Minchillo/AP Mon
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference alongside the National Guard at the Jacob Javits Center which was built to house a temporary hospital in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in New York. John Minchillo/AP
Health care workers transport a patient to a hospital in New York, the United States, January 1, 2021. National Guard members are still being deployed to keep tabs on unused equipment during the pandemic. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
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