Russia Suspends Use of Ventilator Type Sent to US After Fatal Fires

Russia Suspends Use of Ventilator Type Sent to US After Fatal Fires
A medical specialist is seen in a window after a fire, which killed five CCP virus patients in an intensive care unit, at a hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 12, 2020. Anton Vaganov/Reuters
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MOSCOW—Russia on May 13 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 CCP virus.

The ventilators’ safety was called into question a day earlier after a fire at Saint George’s Hospital in St. Petersburg in which five people died. That followed another fire at a hospital in Moscow which killed one person on Saturday.