And I said, and that has happened now. And what should have taken place is they should have invested money into our reserves, our medical reserves that we have. We went from 8 to 12 [medical depots] under my leadership when I was secretary. And what we needed to do was needed to put ventilators and masks and hospital beds and more medicines in there. And we failed to do that. (01:42–01:47)
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Asserts that the number of medical depots increased from 8 to 12 during his tenure.
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