My apologies.
I guess I'm trying to get some clarification of the reasoning behind the motion. You're looking at the fact that literally $7.4 billion of PPE was procured. That's PPE and medical equipment. For nitrile and vinyl glove pairs alone you're looking at 781 million, and 60 million face shields were received. I'm seeing 130 million medical gowns. This is as of February 26, 2021. If you're looking at N95 and KN95 respirators, 115 million were received, along with 10 million cloth masks, 63 million face coverings and 25,000 medical ventilators.
I guess I'm trying to understand this. It seems the supplies that were procured over this time have met the demand that was generated locally. It's up to the provinces and the local health units to indicate that they require additional assistance. PSPC and PHAC knocked it out of the park, providing, again, tens and hundreds of millions of pieces of PPE to help supply and fill the breach. Even earlier in testimony today, we heard one of our colleagues at the committee say that we've ordered so much of this stuff that we should consider potentially nullifying some of the orders because we have too much of it.
I'm looking at this situation and I see PSPC and PHAC really accelerating purchases and really stepping up to the plate in such a difficult situation, knowing that there is such tremendous demand globally in such a competitive situation. Again, they are hitting the ball out of the park in making sure that we procure an enormous amount of PPE to make sure that we have double, triple and quadruple the coverage of what is required.
I'm trying to understand this. I'm always open to discussion. It's the way that I approach committee and approach the work here. However, I'm trying to understand exactly what my colleague Mr. Green is trying to get at with this motion and what the purpose of the motion is. Again, I'm looking at this information and PHAC and PSPC, as I said, really ramped up the procurement process. They got to work quickly and created a PPE stockpile that I would say other countries probably wish they had.
Even looking forward right now, PSPC and PHAC are—