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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
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Nov 11 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
ICYMI, my request Friday to Minister @AdrianaLaGrange to recoup $49.4m from MHCare Medical/Atabay boondoggle.

Sorry to openly copy AB reporters, but questions at her pressers are so restricted.
@alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC I wasn't aware that on 10 Aug 2020, then-Education Minister Lagrange had fired a pre-emptive deceptive strike at Alberta's Ethics Commissioner Trussler about the IFR chlorine masks purchased within the previous two (2) weeks from a company in her riding.

rdnewsnow.com/2020/08/10/lag…
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC Complaint alleged the Minister lied by claiming her political staff were NOT involved.

Justice Trussler cannot address "moral integrity" aka lying.

She concluded the Minister was protected by political staff claiming they interfered behind her back.

ethicscommissioner.ab.ca/media/2809/lag… On August 10, 2020, she wrote to the Ethics Commissioner to pre-empt an investigation, as the information about Mr. Radford, owner of IFR, being a donor and constituent in her riding surfaced. She denied having connections to Mr. Radford. She lied saying IFR was chosen purely on POC’s technical advice. She lied and said she only learned of IFR’s contract on Aug 8, after the press conference. She then tried to mislead the Ethics Commissioner saying none of her political staff were involved. I would like a full investigation conducted regarding this conflict of interest, in contravention o...
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@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC Justice Trussler criticized the "lack of memory of several key people" such as Minister LaGrange + Deputy Minister Corbould.

I suspect the Minister's lawyers worked hard to "make representations" between the Ethics Commissioner's draft & final report.

canlii.org/en/ab/laws/sta… "(4) Where it appears to the Ethics Commissioner that a report may adversely affect a Member, former Member, former Minister or former member of the Premier’s and Ministers’ staff, the Ethics Commissioner shall inform the Member, former Member, former Minister or former member of the Premier’s and Ministers’ staff of the particulars and give the Member, former Member, former Minister or former member of the Premier’s and Ministers’ staff the opportunity to make representations, either orally or in writing at the discretion of the Ethics Commissioner, before the Ethics Commissioner com...
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC I don't believe I knew Nate Pike or @TheBreakdownAB in Jan 2021, but they did episode 3.03 on this scandal then, and did a Flashback Friday in June 2023 when Premier Smith named Minister LaGrange Health Minister despite the Ethics Commissioner's report.

youtube.com/watch?v=JRdceu…
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC @TheBreakdownAB I would suggest, that given:
• her history when Education Minister
• the scandals she inherited or is worsening as Health Minister now
• intense public scrutiny on MHCare Medical now

that she get this $49.4m back now.

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@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC @TheBreakdownAB @threadreaderapp @PfParks @JMeddings Interesting line from @rdnewsNOW above:

"Municipal Affairs Minister Kaycee Madu, whose department handles the Provincial Operations Centre that procured the mask contracts, also wrote the ethics commissioner about the issue."

He knows her well. Would love to see that letter. 🤓
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 10
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…Screenshot of Health Canada database showing 289 results for "mhcare"
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 Example of many Vanch mask reports
Examples of PRIMED masks assumed, but box identifying MHCare Medical or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter on the box.
Examples of no name listed for masks, but Beifa Group and/or MHCare Medical identified
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... Screenshot of 2 of many results listing adverse reactions to the gloves
Screenshot of 3 of many results listing adverse reactions to the gloves
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 9
Minister @AdrianaLaGrange, Atabay + MHCare Medical have not delivered $49.4 million of the $70m paid up front for children's meds.

Increasingly unlikely.

Please get that back. We need the money for healthcare. @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @shoffmanAB
theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…"The provincial government has said it is working with the Turkish manufacturer to “explore options” to fulfill the remainder of the contract, but has repeatedly declined to provide additional details. However, in the e-mail from Mr. Van Dyne to Ms. Williams, he said they are hoping to fulfill the remainder of the contract – equivalent to $49.4-million – through the purchase of intravenous, or IV, acetaminophen."
You stated that GoA "bought the medicine with the best of intentions."

Only 13,700 of 1.5m bottles received were even distributed. AHS will NOT use them. We have 3-4 yrs of national demand in stock.

With good intentions now, please get the $49.4m back.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2024/01/10/opp…
Minister @AdrianaLaGrange, you rightly stated that you're "very much in favour" of companies getting contracts competitively through RFP.

MHCare Medical and Atabay got this business via sole-source. Not competitive.

So can we get the $49.4m back now?

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 5
1. Danielle Smith ordered EVERY shipment of the $80m MHCare Medical/Atabay children's acetaminophen boondoggle to be AIRLIFTED at taxpayer expense.

2. It's likely these airlifts were handled by MHCare Medical too, with their usual profiteering off the Gov of Alberta.

🧵
How do I know Item 1 above? Well, for starters, Smith told us in her opening PR stunt.

Stupid, wasteful decision. Even if you truly believed you were solving a shortage, you might airlift the first 1-2 shipments, while bringing the rest by ocean freight.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…"Alberta’s government and Alberta Health Services are working with Health Canada on completing the drug establishment licensing approval process. Once the approval is granted, the medication will be delivered to Alberta over 10 air shipments. As soon as the medication arrives in the province, it will be distributed to community and retail pharmacies so that parents and caregivers can purchase it for their children. Because Alberta’s government has secured so many bottles of the pain and fever medication, it is expected that Albertans will be able to find it on pharmacy shelves in the s...
Why do I suspect Item 2 above? MHCare Medical was already the middleman between Atabay, Alberta Health, and Health Canada.

They tout their international logistics experience on their website.

Why would they give GoA's corrupt, lucrative business away?

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Oct 30
When I finally got my hands on $80m Danielle Smith/MHCare Medical boondoggle children's acetaminophen, I weighed & measured it.

Thanks to glass bottle: 291 grams

250,000 bottles = 73 tons!

Smith's decision to airlift that to Alberta in Jan 2023 is case study in bad ethics.

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@TheBreakdownAB @LukaszukAB @JMeddings @PfParks The whole boondoggle is enough to kick out a gov and bring in Auditor General.

But Smith's decision to manufacture AND airlift these 250,000 bottles – without a child safety cap (!) – shows the worst of it in one incident.

Shameless Smith made an expensive PR stunt about it.
GoA admitted that the package design they + MHCare submitted for Health Canada approval did not have child resistant cap required by law since at least 2006.

But Smith decided to:
• manufacture 250,000 deficient bottles anyway
• AIRLIFT them here

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…Image
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Oct 27
🧵Unboxing videos of $80m boondoggle by Danielle Smith + MHCare Medical to [incompetently] import children's acetaminophen from Atabay in Turkey.

Excuse the shaky hand - I don't have a tripod and missed lunch to get ahead of much-anticipated @TheBreakdownAB tonight.
@TheBreakdownAB Here's the link to the Blue Cross warning from the first video.

I guess me trying to hold a cellphone while doing this is like a parent trying to hold a sick child trying to figure out the package and instructions.

ab.bluecross.ca/pdfs/pharmacy-…
@TheBreakdownAB In this video, I show that the UCP gov claimed from the start that this product would be available on the same pharmacy shelves as the brand name products, at retailers so parents would not have go to hospital to get the meds.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Oct 25
LaGrange: "fairly encouraging that we will have similar numbers to last year"

What?! Last year had the worst flu shot uptake in 10 years. @JenLeeCBC interviewed multiple experts who said this was a problem.

LaGrange keeps benchmarking us to the worst.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… x.com/TheBreakdownAB…
@JenLeeCBC If LaGrange wants to compare to last year's stats, we had by far worst:
• hospital admissions
• ICU admissions
• deaths
• since before pandemic.

No physician clinics this year either.

This year could be worse.

@drDavidKeegan @PfParks @shoffmanAB

alberta.ca/stats/dashboar…Table of Total hospital admissions, ICU admissions and deaths among laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza cases in Alberta, 2020-2021 to 2023-2024
Table of Influenza vaccine doses administered and coverage by season and provider
@JenLeeCBC @drDavidKeegan @PfParks @shoffmanAB A repeat at best of LaGrange's last year's negligence will likely keep us on the same downward spiral on flu shots since the arrival of the arrogant UCP since 2019..

.. and likely the same or worse deaths or hospitalizations of Albertans, from my view of medical expert advice. Graph of Influenza immunization rates in Alberta, by flu season, showing rise from 20% in 2010-2011, to a peak at 31% in 2014-15, and then another peak at 37% in 2020-21, then sharp drops to 24% in 2023-24.
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