Ottawa offloads pandemic mobile hospitals to trim spending
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 8:20 am
Ottawa is attempting to offload four custom-made, seldom-used portable hospitals that cost over $200 million during the pandemic. With $7 million in annual storage and maintenance costs looming, officials now face the irony of an emergency asset evolving into a fiscal burden.
Documents obtained through the Access to Information Act reveal that off-loading the massive structures has turned out to be a difficult and slow-moving task
Ces quatre unités mobiles, commandées au début de la pandémie, n’auront finalement accueilli qu’une poignée de patients.
Le gouvernement fédéral dépense annuellement des millions de dollars uniquement pour équiper et maintenir les quatre unités mobiles de santé qu’il avait mises sur pied pendant la pandémie de COVID-19.
Ottawa is looking to off-load costly, seldom-used mobile hospitals bought by the federal government during the pandemic for over 200 million dollars.
OTTAWA — The federal government expects to spend about $7 million this fiscal year to store and maintain four custom-made, portable hospitals that cost taxpayers more than $200 million to buy — facilities meant to bolster overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic that were barely used.…
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