Anonymous ID: b4b9e8 April 4, 2020, 4:20 a.m. No.8682897   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Belgium destroyed millions of mouth masks ahead of outbreak

GUESS WHY

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

 

"Belgium’s current health ministry destroyed millions of mouth masks it had in a strategic reserve stock because they reached their expiration date, but failed to replace them.

 

32 million surgical masks and 6 million FFP2 respirator masks —currently in global shortage amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic—were destroyed because they had reached their expiration date and become “unusable.”

 

A report of the destruction order, obtained by Francophone daily Le Vif, showed that the cabinet of Health Minister Maggie De Block then chose not to replace the masks, citing concerns about the use of taxpayer money.

 

The reserve stock of masks had originally been bought in 2006 by then-health minister Rudy Demotte, and were replaced in 2009 by his successor Laurette Onkelinx for a cost of €9 million, as the world braced for the H1N1 swine flu pandemic."

 

More here:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/102302/belgium-destroyed-and-did-not-replace-millions-of-mouth-masks/

 

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