VICTORIA — Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has quietly has donated a large shipment of protective masks for B.C. health care workers, Postmedia News has learned.
The donation was accepted by the B.C. government late last week, but not acknowledged publicly when Health Minister Adrian Dix announced Monday the arrival of almost one million new masks. Hundreds of thousands of those masks, both simple protective and N95 masks, came from China through Huawei.
“The province has many supply sources included transfers from our federal partners and a variety of domestic and international suppliers,” Dix told Postmedia. “We don’t share details about our suppliers.”