Public Health May Have Broken Rules By Selling Ventilators For Scrap

Public Health Canada may have violated its own rules on the sale of licensed medical devices by selling ventilators costing $22,600 each for scrap metal last February, documents say. The ventilators were sold despite the agency’s own directives forbidding the sale of licensed medical devices for scrap, according to the documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. The licences for the ventilators were not revoked until around a month after the agency began auctioning units off, the report notes. The ventilators sold for scrap were produced by StarFish Medical, a Toronto company which was given a $169.5 million contract to produce roughly 7,500 Canadian emergency ventilators and were later sold by the company GC Surplus for as little as $6 out of a warehouse in Concord, Ont....