The hospital in St. Petersburg after the fire replaced the Russian ventilators with Mindray equipment
Customers: City hospital of the Saint Great martyr Georgi St. Petersburg; Pharmaceutics, medicine, health care Contractors: Mindray Medical Rus Project date: 2020/05
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At the end of May, 2020 the St. Petersburg hospital of Saint Georgy where earlier there was a fire which reason, according to preliminary data there were faulty ventilators of the Russian production ("Aventa-M"), bought the equipment of the same type from the Chinese Mindray.
According to TASS with reference to the portal of state procurements, medical institution was purchased by 40 Mindray SV300 medical ventilators at the price of 2.5 million rubles apiece. Total amount of purchase was 98.3 million rubles. Purchase is issued at the only supplier – Laboratory Medical Product company.
Earlier Saint Georgy's hospital signed the delivery contract of the German IVL instead of "Aventa-M" whose use was temporarily prohibited by Roszdravnadzor after two cases of their self-ignition. According to the contract for total amount of 27.7 million rubles, one device of the German production will cost much cheaper than Chinese: 330 thousand rubles apiece. 237 Russian devices which are already delivered to hospital decided not to use until the end of investigation of causes of the fire.
On May 23, 2020 it became known that tests of the devices "Aventa-M" which were made after the fire in hospitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow did not reveal failures in work, even at the maximum loads. Told the informed source about this TASS.[1]
In general in 2020 to Russian regions had to deliver nearly 7000 devices "Aventa-M". The total price of purchase of devices — nearly 7.5 billion rubles. However after the incidents in Moscow and St. Petersburg regions began to refuse the Ural devices in large quantities.
On May 15, 2020 the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov urged not to draw "hasty conclusions" about Aventa-M ventilators. The minister said that all batches of Aventa-M ventilators were checked to exclude possible problems.