Approximately 800 million yen for inspection of collected cloth masks for pregnant women Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare New Corona May 14 16:48
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has revealed that it costs about 800 million yen to inspect the cloth masks for pregnant women, which were once collected by the local government and found defective products.
About 470,000 pieces of cloth masks for pregnant women who were infected by the new coronavirus were sent from the government to local governments nationwide, but in about 10% of them, defective products such as dirt were found, and the country once We collect and inspect.
At the Health and Welfare Committee of the House of Councilors on 14th, the director of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Yoshida, said that the inspection work will be done by about 550 professional specialists and will cost about 800 million yen.
At the beginning, when the defective products were found, the government asked each local government to inspect them, but Director Yoshida said, `` In some local governments, the public health center is in charge of the work, and criticism from the site that is extremely busy responding to the new coronavirus The government decided to take it back, taking into account the voice of the voice.