€8m ‘unrecoverable’ after HSE bought ventilators with no business case

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An in-depth report found the health organisation placed orders for 10 times the number of ventilators it needed

Officials estimate that more than €8 million is “unrecoverable” of the amount that the HSE spent buying ventilators during the early days of the Covid pandemic.

A new report from the Comptroller and Auditor General found after the virus outbreak, the HSE identified that there were 533 ventilators available for use for adult patients in the acute hospital system.

 

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