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Court of Auditors clearly criticizes Spahn's procurement of masks
Spahn at his final press convention as Health Minister on the finish of 2021
Quelle: image alliance/Flashpic/Jens Krick
The Federal Audit Office accuses former Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn of shopping for too many masks originally of the corona pandemic. Accordingly, 1.2 billion protecting masks have now been destroyed. The general advantage of the “massive overprocurement” was small.
DThe Federal Audit Office sharply criticized the procurement of masks within the Corona disaster beneath then Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and accused his establishment of failing to course of it. “The massive over-procurement of protective masks at the beginning of the corona pandemic by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) led to persistently high stocks and significant follow-up costs,” says a report from the Federal Audit Office to the Bundestag’s price range committee, which is offered to “Spiegel”. “The benefit in combating the pandemic was small compared to this,” it continues.
The report makes it clear how enormous the planning errors have been in the course of the disaster: of the 5.7 billion protecting masks bought, solely 2 billion have been distributed, 1.7 billion of them in Germany. It can’t be decided what number of masks have been truly used.
According to the report, 1.2 billion protecting masks have now been destroyed, and one other 1.7 billion are more likely to be burned. In addition, there are nearly 800 million protecting masks that may nonetheless be used, for which there isn’t a “use and distribution concept” – and which can subsequently even be disposed of sooner or later.
The Court of Auditors additionally criticized the ministry's dealing with of doc requests beneath the Freedom of Information Act (IFG). According to the report, with the intention to keep at bay this kind of request, paperwork have been apparently systematically categorised as “classified information – for official use only” (VS-NfD). “This classification can be used as a reason for rejecting IFG applications without further explanation,” the auditors quote from inside correspondence. To date, the Ministry of Health doesn’t maintain any ongoing information to course of the procurement of masks, they continued to criticize.
The auditors concluded that almost all of the masks procurement was “of no use in combating the pandemic and therefore of no health policy value.”
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article250799036/Corona-Rechnungshof-kritisiert-Spahns-Maskenbeschaffung-deutlich.html