Wee denies contacting China suppliers to procure ventilators

PARLIAMENT | Former transport minister Wee Ka Siong today denied that he was involved in government procurement of 136 ventilators from China in 2020, many of which were later found to be faulty and unusable.

Instead, Wee (BN-Ayer Hitam) told the Dewan Rakyat that he only assisted in the transportation of Covid-19 equipment during the pandemic, including the ventilators in question.

"First of all, the approval (for the Health Ministry) to purchase 800 units of ventilators came from the National Security Council and the...