Has the national ventilator project run out of oxygen?
19 August 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is deeply concerned by the continued delays and inaction on the much spoken about national ventilator project.
The project, described as the "brain-child" of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) Minster, Ebrahim Patel was supposed to deliver 10 000 ventilators by the end of June to make up for the shortfall in the public hospitals in the fight against Covid-19.
In May, this delivery was increased to 15 000 units and pushed out to the end of July.