Russia on Wednesday suspended the use of some Russian-made medical ventilators after two fatal hospital fires reported to involve the machines, a setback in its fight against the novel coronavirus.
FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist is seen in a window after a fire, which killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit, at a hospital in Saint Petersburg, Russia May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
In both cases, sources told the TASS news agency that the source of the fires had been faulty Aventa-M ventilators. Russia sent a batch of the same ventilators to the United States in early April, though U.S. officials say the machines were not needed in the end. It gave no explanation for the suspension, but noted that the ventilators had been used in the two hospitals where the recent fires had taken place which it said a day earlier it was looking into.Public procurement data cited by the Interfax news agency said that the Saint George Hospital in St Petersburg spent 441 million roubles last month on buying 237 Aventa-M ventilators.
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