Healthcare Stockpile Has Mass. DPH Prepped For Next Pandemic

WBZ NewsRadio's Chaiel Schaffel has more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
After getting hammered with shortages during the pandemic, Massachusetts is
now trying out a tactic famously employed by Smog the Dragon.
Meet the state's medical equipment.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Stockpile to see some of our ventilators that we have.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
We have four or five different types of ventilators.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
A giant warehouse and Franklin pack with more than twenty
one million pieces of medical gear. It took about eighteen
months to fit out this warehouse, and they've been collecting
the PPE and other medical supplies for years. Doctor Kiami
Mihania is the State Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
We have learned all too well that there are events
that are not preventable and that must be responded to,
and these moments the work of public health apparentness comes
into full view.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Officials here say, with the Trump administration throwing federal grants
into the paper shredder, it's more important than ever for
the state to have its own stuff. Kyle Schaffel WBZ,
Boston's news radio