3 hours agoBosnia imports fans from China worth about 5m euros: It turns out they were totally useless to coronary patients
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Bosnia's state prosecutors say about a hundred ventilators imported from China by a private and paid company by the country's government have proved useless to patients with coronarys. The small firm without a license which imported medical equipment was paid about 5m euros to get equipment in the country [...]
The small firm without a license, which imported medical equipment, was paid about 5m euros to get equipment in the small Balkan country in the middle of the pandemic.
But after a public protest over why the company, called Silver Raspberry and related to the Bosnian political institution, received the lucrative agreement, the state prosecutor's office opened an investigation into corruption and possible fraud.
In their initial report, prosecutors said in a statement Monday that imported ventilators “do not meet even a minimum of the characteristics needed for adequate treatment” of coronary patients.
The use of those ventilators in intensive care units,”, therefore, is not recommended.
The company's owner has dismissed allegations that he imported breathing cars at high prices. He said he used his business ties in China to realise what he called a “humanitarian commission”.
Experts have warned that the pandemic COVID-19, which seized officials in many unprepared and unequipped countries equipped to meet the need for protection and ventilation, has created new opportunities for such manipulations as governments are now trying to obtain supplies in any possible form.
