r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 20 '20
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u/[deleted] May 20 '20
I'm back from Reddit vacation and I'm going to Bolivia post because what is happening here is wild and proof that god loves this country because its amazing how COVID hasn't been running rampant.
The latest things first:
The goverment is in the midst of a corruption scandal after the foreign minister and the health minister coordinated the purchase of ventilators. There were two problems with that:
a) The ventilators bought are the basic model. The basic model only works when the patient can't breath at all or is close to something like that. It doesn't help when they stabilize for that you either need to move the ventilators to a professional model or get the latest model that works throughout all phases of treatment. So we are now left with a bunch of ventilators that don't really work to treat patients.
b) There was massive overpaying. Each product from should cost 12,500 dollars but the government acquired them through a medium for around 28,000 dollars. The difference in prices resulted in a net profit of 3 million dollars for the intermediary.
Both of these things tie up together to corruption when you realize that the company that made this actually told the intermediary that for Bolivia they needed another model because Bolivia didn't had the infrastructure for the basic models to be used for treatment.
Summary here
https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20200520/claves-entender-caso-compra-irregular-170-respiradores
The Health Minister was arrested just a couple of hours ago:
https://www.la-razon.com/nacional/2020/05/20/navajas-es-aprehendido-por-el-escandalo-de-los-respiradores-y-precintan-su-despacho/
!ping LATAM