Huge stocks of masks, protective clothing, respirators and medication is on the so far closed the store in Finland.
Now open the Finnish government for the hidden skattekamre with equipment to handle coronakrisen.
the typing of the Swedish tv-station SVT.
Many european countries are struggling right now with an acute shortage of basic equipment such as face masks, gowns and other protective equipment.
Equipment, such as doctors, nurses, social and health care assistants and other health care professionals must use to avoid spreading the coronavirus to the patients.
The kinds of problems do the finns not.
In the Finnish forests, the authorities have namely since the cold war created huge stockpiles that among other things, the type of equipment that will be used in the event of an emergency.
“Our geographical location and history have taught us as a nation to prepare ourselves for the worst. It is located in the Finnish people’s dna,” says the head of the Finnish nødforsyningsbureau, Toni Lounema, to the New York Times.
It is unknown, how great stocks are, for it is according to Toni Lounema ‘classified information’.
also, Finland some weeks ago was hit by coronavirussen, the authorities ordered that it should begin to tear away at the huge store.
The oldest of the equipment dating back to the 1950s, but although the masks are old, so they may still be used, assures Toni Lounema of the New York Times.
Thanks to the secret store, there is no shortage of protective equipment in Finland. The scandinavian neighbours, however, do not expect to be able to buy mundbind and another of the fins.
“unfortunately we cannot under the Finnish legislation. Nødlagrene shall only be used by Finnish nationals,” says head of department in the Finnish ministry of health, Päivi Sillanaukee to SVT.
Also Denmark, Norway and Sweden had similar past supply dumps during the cold war. As the threat landscape changed, chose, however, to decommission them, writes the New York Times.
however, It is not Finland.
“Finland is the Nordic prepper-nation and is always prepared for a big disaster or a Third world War,” explains the expert at the Norwegian defence research institute Magnus Hakenstad to The New York Times.
