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The City Council of Cartagena will coordinate, together with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), a campaign to collect diving masks to transform them into protective equipment against the coronavirus and to protect the health workers of the hospitals in the region.
The College of Pharmacists of the Region has joined this campaign, as announced by the Deputy Mayor and head of municipal social services, Noelia Arroyo.
The initiative has come from the UPCT that will be in charge of adapting the full-face diving masks sold by Decathlon, by installing a valve and a protection filter adapter, made on its 3-D printers.
The work will preferably be done with Easybreath masks of that commercial brand, but any type of full face masks will be accepted for later adaptations.
“The Official College of Pharmacists of the Region has made itself available to the project as soon as we have asked for it and thanks to its network of pharmacies we will have a delivery point for the masks very close to each citizen who wants to donate them.
The pharmacists will keep them, we will collect them and our University will make them barriers against the virus for our medical professionals.
In this way we avoid large displacements, which are totally inadvisable, and we manage to get the masks to our University quickly, "explained Arroyo.
Diving masks can be delivered to pharmacies, always in a closed plastic bag, to facilitate their safe handling.
The diving equipment transformed into protective equipment will be delivered to the Murcian Health Service for distribution among the health personnel who work in hospitals in the region.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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