Costly new Covid ventilators sold for scrap by the Department of Public Works were still in their original factory wrapping, says a paramedic who bought 51 units at bargain prices. Dissembled units that sold for $6 apiece cost taxpayers more than $22,000 each, according to figures earlier submitted to the Commons ethics committee: “They are still sitting in my driveway.”
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