AdvaMed Asks Administration to Focus on Medical Equipment Transport

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 24, 2021)—AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker has sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of the medical technology industry asking “the Administration to make the transport of medical supplies and equipment a top priority as you and your teams think through solutions to the ongoing transport and logistics crisis.”

Whitaker noted that “multiple industries are affected by these disruptions,” but that “the implications for the healthcare system and patient care are imperative as we head into the fall, which brings with it flu season and uncertainty surrounding Covid-19 variants in unvaccinated populations.”

In the letter, AdvaMed thanked the Administration for “working so hard in coordination with [the medtech] industry to ensure that patients have the care they need throughout these challenging times, and to expedite the deployment of vaccines across the country. In particular, we’ve appreciated the dedicated work of your COVID-19 response team, which has been working tirelessly to address supply chain bottlenecks and disruptions in order to facilitate our industry’s efforts to tackle the pandemic.”

AdvaMed, also known as the Advanced Medical Technology Association, is a group of medical device and technology makers. 

Click here to read the letter.