Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.
This is genuinely huge and is negligent homicide at the very least. We need multinational lawsuits to deal with multinational crimes like this.
Knowingly using a material that degrades with heat and humidity and can cause cancer in the manufacture of a heating humidifying healthcare device, and then ignoring all reports for years is diabolical stuff.
Once again profit was more important than the health and safety of common people. And i am quite sure that none of the responsible parties will see jail time over this, because they never do.
Instead of making you wait, they should have been forced to shell out to get you a new machine from another company. Well, Resmed. All of us who use CPAPs know that Phillips and Resmed machines are far and away better than any other machine out there. Which sucks for us users.
Phillips, the pride of the Netherlands. Long time ago.
People suffered because of this, people died.
They should investigate what execs and managers knew about this and failed to act within a month and send them to jail for a year for each month they failed to act.
Any time a company decides to go for profit over human suffering and casualties, execs and managers should be jailed. It's the only thing that will stop these practices.
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