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Ottawa looks to off-load costly, seldom-used mobile hospitals bought for the pandemic

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Ottawa is looking to off-load costly, seldom-used mobile hospitals bought for the pandemic.

Documents obtained through the Access to Information Act reveal that off-loading the massive, technically complex structures has turned out to be a difficult and slow-moving task.

The four Mobile Health Units take up 588 tractor trailers worth of space and need constant access to electricity to refrigerate medicine.

A departmental memo signed by Jean-Yves Duclos declared them surplus and granted GCSurplus approval to sell them at below market value, sell off sub-components or donate them.

The two units dispatched in Ontario were temporarily deployed at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto and at Hamilton Health Sciences .

Neither one was actually used to deal with critical hospital overflow.

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