US states were forced to smuggle shipments of personal protective equipment from the Corona virus after federal officials confiscated the supplies requested by the states without informing the officials.
State governors complained that the administration of President Donald Trump left them in a state of confusion with the open market to obtain critical supplies for health workers. But several officials recently said that the federal government had confiscated the supplies requested by the state.
Colorado State Governor Jared Police told CNN that the state had bought 500 ventilators before it was "kidnapped" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Massachusetts Republican governor, Charlie Baker, said that the Trump administration had "confiscated" his state's 3 million medical mask.
Accordingly, hospital officials are concealing equipment shipments to the federal government to avoid confiscation. The Illinois Democratic Gov. J. In me. Pritzker, secretly bought millions of gags and gloves from China. He kept the details of the deal secretly, for fear of confiscations.
"Because we have heard reports that the Trump administration is trying to take personal protective equipment from China, even that arrives in the United States," said a source close to the Chicago Sun-Times, a spokesman for Pritzker said, "Dealing with medical equipment is now like Wild West films." "After purchasing the equipment, ensuring that it reaches the desired destination is an adventure whose consequences are unknown."
The chief executive of Paestate Hospital in Massachusetts, Dr. Andrew Artenstein, revealed in a letter published in the magazine "New England Gunnal Medicine" that he was investigated by the FBI after hospital staff worked around the clock to secure a shipment of personal protective equipment.
"Some of the deals that cost us fictional sums failed at the last minute when he came from paying more than we paid or whoever is stronger than us has authority, sometimes the federal government interferes. Other times we are lucky but Getting supplies is not easy. "
"We loaded a PPE shipment into two trucks and made them appear to be carrying food and asked the drivers to go on two different paths toward Massachusetts. Nevertheless, two officers from the Federal Investigation came and opened the investigation with me, and then they tried to take the two shipments even though they were notified," Dr. Andrew added. We desperately need us, and we were unable to keep the materials until after our representative in Congress called them, so they left. "
For his part, veteran political commentator David Forum said that what was contained in the letter "is similar to the stories that were coming from the Soviet Union in his last days." "I have heard about the cases of confiscation of medical equipment. And I think the US administration should coordinate the distribution of The materials are not making the situation worse for the hospitals. "
The news of the confiscations reached the congressional committees, after the New York Times published a news saying that President Jared Kushner's son-in-law "surprised" the Federal Emergency Management Agency when he re-sent the equipment to another location.
Kouchner himself said during the daily press conference related to the Coronavirus that he changed the destination to which medical supplies were supposed to be sent, and these materials were directed
to New York after Trump got a "call from his friends" related to the difficult conditions experienced by the city's hospitals.