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Source: Caribbean National Weekly
April 5, 2020
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC Barbados Health Minister Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic has sought to assure the country that there is no shortage of ventilators despite the fact that a shipment of ventilators destined for the island from the United States were recently seized.
Bostic, who was speaking during a press conference on Sunday revealed that the ventilators donated to the Barbados Government as an act of philanthropy were barred from exportation.
They were seized in the United States. Paid for, but seized, so we are trying to see exactly what is going to transpire there.
The Health Minister added that ventilators are one of the most in-demand items in the world today and Barbados is merely wrestling with the other 203 countries and territories around the world seeking to secure as many of these pieces of equipment as possible.
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