Like a bad Santa, instead of delivering medical supplies, the Federal Emergency Situation Management Firm has actually been implicated once again of hijacking frantically needed protective equipment for first responders and healthcare employees– this time in a Massachusetts town.
Milford Fire Chief William Touhey Jr. accused the firm of commandeering 30,000 gowns as well as masks that the department had actually ordered. A few of the protective equipment was to be used by first responders, and the rest were to go to the Milford Regional Medical Center, the Milford Daily News reported.
” At the last minute, we were alerted” that the shipment “would not be coming,” Touhey informed WCVB-TV in Boston “The government had stepped in and taken possession.”
Touhey told the Daily News that he was informed he wouldn’t receive any of the dress and has actually up until now gotten only 500 of the 2,500 masks bought.
Nurses were so desperate for the protective equipment that they had actually “held up cardboard signs” for passing drivers, “ requesting for contributions of anything: ponchos, gloves and [the] kinds of things that they could utilize in a medical setting,” Touhey told Boston 25 News.
FEMA issued a declaration that it works with an organization and companies that may be “bound to sell an established percentage of their freight to locations that HHS [Health and Human Services] and F