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UK’s healthcare ‘dangerously reliant’ on China for medical supplies

As per the report, the UK government sourced 6 per cent of vital medical supplies on the Disaster Relief List from China before Covid, and the figure had hit 17 per cent by 2020, almost treble the previous amount.

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London [UK]: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is “dangerously reliant” on China for medical supplies, said a report published by British think tank Civitas after studying Chinese-manufactured goods in NHS supply chains.

This revelation was made in a report titled “China’s presence in NHS supply chains: Why we need to protect our health service from future threat.”

This analysis by Robert Clark and Dr Richard Norrie finds that 1 in 6 products contained on the Government’s “Disaster Relief List” are sourced from China.

In the last year, the UK government has spent over £6.2 billion to keep the NHS going with Chinese manufactured medical supplies – a figure has trebled in less than a year. The report calls for an emergency ‘NHS Security Act’ warning that “China could switch off medical supplies” in future foreign policy spats.

Robert Clark and Richard Norries uncovered the true extent of NHS reliance on China: “37 per cent of testing and diagnostic items used to detect dangerous viruses. A quarter (24 per cent) of all medical consumables such as oxygen, needles and syringes. A third (30 per cent) of PPE and protective items to keep our NHS workers safe. Almost all paper masks used by medics in hospitals come from China (90 per cent), more than half of all gloves (54 per cent) and almost 80 per cent of bandages. Bizarrely almost half (45 per cent) of bedside monitors now come from China, up from 0 in 2015 and 42 per cent of emergency trolleys and wheelchairs.”

As per the report, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government sourced 6 per cent of vital medical supplies on the Disaster Relief List from China. By 2020 this figure had hit 17 per cent – almost treble the previous amount.

“The latest figures (up to 2021) show we are still sending around £600 million a month to China for critical supplies to keep the NHS going,” the report added.

These new figures undermine the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s promise to “end reliance on Chinese imports” for vital medical supplies when launching plans to ensure that the UK is never again required to go ‘cap in hand’ to China.

Civitas has raised alarm bells about so-called “chokehold risks”, which allow the Chinese government to “switch off our medicines” as it “weaponises” medical products.

The author of this new study, Robert Clark, head of defence and security at Civitas, said: “Before the pandemic hit only 6 per cent of vital medical supplies were shipped in from China a figure that has now shot up to almost a sixth. Things like gloves, monitors, wheelchairs and bandages all largely come from China rather than the UK. We are dangerously over-reliant on China.”

“Let’s not be naive about China. This is an urgent issue for health bosses with the risk that future geo-political spats could lead to the Chinese switching off critical medical supplies destined for the NHS,” he added. (ANI)

 

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