Doctor’s Son Makes Protective Suits To Support Medical Staff

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases keeps rising every day around the world with over 1,00,0000 cases and more than 53,000 deaths.

And this is putting the medical staff who are risking their lives to save people under a ton of pressure. Amid the pandemic, doctors and nurses are facing a critical shortage of protective gear that is needed to keep them safe while treating infected patients.

Many doctors are forced to not taking off their suits or reuse protective gear which isn’t recommendable. And this has caused discomfort to people working in the medical community.

Entrepreneur Saurabh Gupta from Mumbai wrote in a LinkedIn post about his father who is also a doctor and is facing the crisis of lacking necessary safety equipment.

In the post, Gupta said that, because of the lack of equipment, the dangerous and risky environment, the doctors felt scared and demotivated.

So he came up with an idea. He and his team set up a makeshift facility, found the needed materials and started making protective suits. In only 12 hours, the samples were ready. And in just a few hours later, their product was approved by the local authorities.

He said that compared to the commercial kit in the market, the cost of his protective suit was only one-tenth. As of now, the team is capable of manufacturing more than 100 kits per day. These suits are then handed to the police department and healthcare workers in the town.

Gupta added that since he was a doctor’s son, this was the lease he could do to support them who were putting their lives at risk to keep us safe.

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