Incredible voluntary effort by sailors is producing 5,000 PPE gowns a week
Sailors and marine companies across the UK are engaged in an extraordinary drive to make vital PPE for health workers.
One voluntary initiative in the New Forest has supplied more than 16,000 gowns to Southampton General Hospital – and has become the hospital’s main supplier of protective gowns.
Peter Sanders, MD of Sanders Sails in Lymington, said: “At one stage Southampton General was going to run out of these gowns within a week. It was a desperate situation.”
Volunteers worked day and night over one weekend to find the right plastic material, simplify the pattern
