Coronavirus. Russian fans cause fires and deaths: donated to Italy and the USA, but not used

2020-05-13T17:24:07.054Z

The Aventa-M fans whose use has been suspended today by the Russian federal health surveillance service, are the model donated by Russia to Italy as part of the aid decided by the Kremlin. The checks carried out in Russia show that the "indicted" models are those produced after April 1st. According to well-informed sources, about 30% of the batch of 90 machines donated by Russia to Italy would fall into that category. But according to the same sources, the pulmonary ventilators in question have not yet been distributed in Italian hospitals. Russia suspends and withdraws the Aventa-M The Authority for Health in Russia (Roszdravnadzor), ordered to no longer use the model of lung ventilators manufactured after April 1 and held responsible for two fires that occurred in two Covid-19 hospitals in which six people died. These are fans of Russian production Aventa-M used both in the intensive care of the St. George hospital in St. Petersburg, where five people died yesterday from a fire that broke out from the appliances, and in a Moscow hospital where a stake killed another patient last Saturday. Roszdravnadzor said he had started evaluating the quality and safety of the appliances. According to the first information of the investigations launched on the bonfires, in St. Petersburg, the fan or fans working in the intensive care unit generated flames and set the department on fire. The same respirator model is said to be responsible for the fire in a Moscow hospital, according to the Tass agency. USA does not use Russian fans The United States let it know that it will not use Russian-made fans after the two accidents with deaths in Russian hospitals in a few days and the decision to suspend their use at home. The US Federal Agency for Emergency Management (Fema) told CNBC that Russian fans "Aventa-M" - suspected of causing the fire in a St. Petersburg hospital with five deaths among Covid patients 19 - have not yet been used and will not be used. Fema explained that the US received Russian fans in early April, when the emergency was at its peak and medical supplies were needed in anticipation of further aggravation, especially for the New York area. But the Aventa-M would remain in the warehouses and now the situation, a spokesman said, no longer requires their use: "The fans have not been delivered to American hospitals".