Thread by @ZiadFazel

MHCare Medical
Supplies to Alberta Health Services 🧵

For those investigating this, especially HCW representatives like @UnitedNurses @HSAAlberta @gilmcgowan @Albertadoctors...

Health Canada's Medical Device Incident Database confirms some suspicions.

hpr-rps.hres.ca/mdi_results.ph…

There are, as expected, MANY reports like this of Vanch mask problems.

Some mistakenly filed as PRIMED, but all correctly identifying importer MHCare Medical and/or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter printed on the box.

@John1MD @RajBhardwajMD

A large number of POWDER FREE NITRILE EXAMINATION GLOVES that MHCARE MEDICAL CORPORATION DBA MRAICHE HOLDING CORPORATION imported from
SHIJIAZHUANG HONGRAY GROUP CO.,LTD.
with typical MHCare Medical problems:
• poor material or build quality
• skin inflammation, rash, etc...

Lots of SYNGUARD NITRILE EXAM GLOVES issues..
• exposure to body fluids
• breaks, material ruptures, etc

Some assorted gown and infrared thermometer issues...

And BYD KN95 issues.

I suspected AHS had purchased these from MHCare Medical, after both US FDA + Health Canada revoked interim authorization as respirators, when BYD Canada cleared out their inventory cheap.

AHS dumped them on continuing care as N95-equivalent respirators..

I'll have more to say on BYD KN95 and Vanch masks later - maybe on this thread, maybe a new one.

Hundreds of pages of FOIP to get through. Health Canada only got a fraction of what AHS knows.

But for now I at least wanted to get the word out to negotiators and investigators.

And, of course, this teaser:

"Mandatory reporting by hospitals must be submitted in writing within 30 days of the serious [Adverse Drug Reaction] ADR or [Medical Device Incident] MDI being documented. We encourage hospitals to report sooner if possible."

canada.ca/en/health-cana…

When LaGrange was Education Minister, she delayed school in Jan 2022 until enough "medical grade" masks could be distributed to schools. Most prominent of these was BYD Kids masks, which I reported to Health Canada. I believe MHCare Medical supplied them.

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My thread from Dec 2022 when I investigated AHS Questionable Mask & Respirator Purchases.

I knew MHCare Medical were Vanch sole-source, but could only suspect BYD KN95 too (I showed why).

Health Canada's Medical Device Incident database confirms that.

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