Corona sequences: Mask special investigator Sudhof can testify in the committee

The special investigator about the mask procurement in Corona pandemic, Margaretha Sudhof, can answer the Bundestag’s budget committee. The Federal Ministry of Health was released from the duty of confidentiality that was in her contract and would have prevented a statement. The budget committee wants to have a “technical discussion” with Sudhof next Tuesday.

“The Federal Ministry of Health is important the transparent processing of corona pandemic. This also includes analyzing the procurement processes and learning it for future crises,” said a spokesman for the ministry. Sudhof dealt intensively with the procurement of mask. “Your statements can help in this sense.”

Sudhof sees mask procurement by Spahn critically

Sudhof had critically commented on the type of mask procurement in a special report. The then Health Minister Jens Spahn “against the council of his specialist departments” had gotten into the protection mask procurement on a large scale. The decision of the CDU politician to master the procurement alone is still “considerable costs and risks”.

The Ministry of Health under today’s department head Nina Warken (CDU) distanced itself from the special report. After a two -hour hearing in the budget committee, Spahn himself saw most of the allegations against himself.

Local risks in billions

At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, protective FFP2 masks could not be obtained at all and then narrowly. The federal government still threatens the federal government out of billions of risks.