{"id":9474,"date":"2025-12-02T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:55:17","slug":"ontario-wrote-off-1-4b-of-ppe-province-burning-expired-equipment-auditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-wrote-off-1-4b-of-ppe-province-burning-expired-equipment-auditor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario wrote off $1.4B of PPE, province burning expired equipment: auditor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4&nbsp;billion since 2021, the province&#8217;s auditor general found.<\/p>\n<p>Shelley Spence found the province continues to purchase masks, gowns and other protective gear at the same levels as the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, despite significantly declining demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that expired products began to accumulate in the provincial stockpile as some of the products purchased during the pandemic fell short of desired quality standards and were not used,&#8221; Spence wrote in her annual report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4&nbsp;billion since 2021, the province&#8217;s auditor general found.<\/p>\n<p>Shelley Spence found the province continues to purchase masks, gowns and other protective gear at the same levels as the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, despite significantly declining demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that expired products began to accumulate in the provincial stockpile as some of the products purchased during the pandemic fell short of desired quality standards and were not used,&#8221; Spence wrote in her annual report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-wrote-off-1-4b-of-ppe-province-burning-expired-equipment-auditor\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario wrote off $1.4B of PPE, province burning expired equipment: auditor<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,23,19,245,119,1079,309,14,143],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-government","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}