More Than $190 Million Spent on Canada’s Unused Field Hospitals

More Than $190 Million Spent on Canada’s Unused Field Hospitals
A general view of the Mobile Health Unit (MHU) at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital on July 7, 2021. Chris Young/The Canadian Press
Tara MacIsaac
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When the pandemic hit, the Canadian government ordered several field hospital units that could be deployed when regular hospital capacity was maxed out.

To date, four of these mobile health units (MHUs) have been procured at a cost of $189 million, plus some $600,000 monthly to store them. None of them have been used as was expected.