Federal Reserve Overflowing with Expired PPE From Pandemic, AG Report Finds
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Public Health Agency recorded $331-million loss on damaged or expired emergency medical supplies: AG report
Auditor General Karen Hogan reports the agency did not effectively manage the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile, finding gaps in how it decides what supplies Canada should keep on hand and how those supplies are stored and maintained.
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Loonie PoliticsFederal reserve overflowing with expired PPE from pandemic, AG report finds
OTTAWA — Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has accumulated so much excess medical inventory that it is now overflowing with expired or soon-to-be expired personal protective equipment (PPE). That is one of the findings of a new report by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada published on Thursday. It reveals that PHAC did not effectively manage the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS), a federa…
Canada's public health and National Defence have two things in common: they buy too much equipment and they don't use it enough.
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