(Ha'aretz) Ronny Linder - Sarel - Logistic Solutions and Products for Advanced Medicine buys medical equipment for most of Israel's government hospitals and the emergency stores of the Health Ministry, the Israel Police and other state security services. For the past two months, Sarel CEO Avi Buskila has been working overtime to buy medical equipment at a time when global supply chains are collapsing and countries are competing for a limited supply of masks and test kits. Buskila says what he and his team are doing is tantamount to an arms race with other countries to get their hands on critical gear. "It's true that we have emergency warehouses and military stores with hundreds of respirators and masks, but I don't think that anyone anywhere was prepared for an onslaught of these dimensions....For almost 60 days we've been working day and night....No one alive today has ever witnessed anything like it. An epidemic on this scale last happened 100 years ago." "Every day, purchasing is becoming more difficult. We encounter counterfeit items, such as fake N95 masks or overalls that are not water impermeable, so we don't buy anything without checking it out first....For every deal, you have to check that you're not being swindled, since many people say they have something, want a deposit and security, and in the end, you find out that they weren't really leveling with you....You're no longer working with your regular supplier who you can trust at their word."
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