Strawberry Star donates 800 N90 masks to local hospitals and care homes
Business / Tue 21st Apr 2020 at 03:29pm
STRAWBERRY STAR DONATES 800 N90 MASKS TO LOCAL HOSPITAL & CARE HOMES
STRAWBERRY Star Group – a property company with developments in Luton, Wandsworth and Harlow – has donated 800 N-90 quality protective masks to NHS West Essex as well as a number of residential care homes across Newham and Havering.
As part of its ongoing initiatives to support local communities, Strawberry Star recognised the priority for increased PPE to help keep frontline doctors, healthcare workers and volunteers safe as they continue to fight the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus.
Santhosh Gowda, Chairman, Strawberry Star Group, says: “We are aware that Covid-19 has increased the burden of our healthcare network immensely. These are extremely difficult and challenging times for frontline staff, who are at the greatest risk of contracting the virus. We wanted to extend our support to them by donating protective masks.”
“We know that N-90 masks are widely used beyond hospitals, by volunteers and care givers too, so we could see the potential to support the broader network of frontline key workers, such as those looking after the elderly.”
Strawberry Star reached out to local hospitals and donated 400 N-90 face masks to the NHS in Epping, which will be used at St. Margaret’s Hospital and other local clinics in their network. Another 400 masks were donated to Newham and Havering Councils, who will be using them in multiple locations to support the most vulnerable, including residential care homes for the elderly, mentally and physically impaired.
“We will continue to extend support to our healthcare workers and would encourage other businesses to do the same where possible. This is the time for everyone in every community to step up and support our NHS heroes.”
kthe5
2020-04-21 20:00:07
It is so good to see local companies and individuals makeing so many contributions like this. With companies and organisations injection moulding or 3D printing face masks, and others willing to make the gowns, and again others donating other PPE, it all puts this governments inaction to shame. From not joining EU schemes purely for political reasons, to making promises they knew they could not keep, it is once again local people who are having to fill the gaps due to this governments incompetence.
RayMo
2020-04-22 06:00:01
wind it in ffs or get a job at the bbc.
kthe5
2020-04-22 20:48:02
The Beeb? Why would I want to work for an organisation that provide an outlet for right wing shouty failed maybe "politicians"? Maybe you would like to "get a job" with the Telegraph whose associate editor on the 3rd March, wrote "Not to put too fine a point on it, from an entirely disinterested economic perspective, the COVID-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by dsproportionately culling elderly dependants." Perhaps the lack of PPE, the lack of testing, the new hospitals with no staff, the lack of ventilators, not joining EU schemes for political reasons, the appalling death rate in care homes etc. is not incompetence by this crackpot far right incompetent government but a deliberate cull of the old, the homeless and the poor, the 'useless mouths'. Government policy appears to be "Herd immunity, protect the economy and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.". Lives matter more than numbers.
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