Canada Donates Stockpiled Ventilators to Ukraine

Canada Donates Stockpiled Ventilators to Ukraine
Plastic-covered ventilators are seen in the hallway at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on Dec. 8, 2020. The Canadian Press/Mikaela MacKenzie
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A portion of oxygen ventilators ordered by the Department of Public Works during the pandemic have been donated by the federal government to Ukraine to assist its war victims.

Ottawa stockpiled ventilators at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic—spending over $700 million on the equipment, which went mostly unused.