Domestic ventilator makers are going all-out to add capacity and deliveries to hospitals, in a bid to meet surging demand amid recent waves of COVID-19 cases.
Chinese ventilators treated as waste in Florida are linked to alleged wasteful spending in Bosnia
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CUTLER BAY, Fla. – The same type of Chinese-made medical ventilator that was recently treated as waste in Florida was associated with alleged wasteful spending in a public corruption case in southeastern Europe.
Local 10 News′ reporting about the brand new Chinese-made medical ventilators trashed at a Miami-Dade County landfill made headlines in Bosnia, where a scandal involving government officials accused of money laundering and bribery involves the same make and model.
A licensed U.S. Customs broker based in Miami-Dade’s city of Doral recently dumped millions of dollars worth of ACM812A ventilators by the Beijing Aerospace ChangFeng at the South Dade Landfill.
Why are new ventilators being trashed in a Miami-Dade landfill?
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“All these f ventilators. This is what is going on. Brand new. Brand f new.”
The video is from a resident who was taking some garbage to the South Dade Landfill last week. He was stunned to see pallets full of brand new, wrapped medical ventilators dumped as bulky trash among mattresses, tires and other waste.
His video shows hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ventilators sitting on trash mountain.
What’s dumped is usually plowed under within a day, so those ventilators are probably gone now.