Indonesian businesswoman designs hazmat protective suit and aims to make hundreds to give away to hospitals for free
In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a tailor makes hazmat suits at a home garment factory in Depok, Indonesia.
She went door-to-door looking for partners in Depok, the West Java city where she runs her merchandising business near the capital. She found five who run home-based garment businesses, and they agreed to only charge for the cost of labor to make the suits.One of her partners, Tating, has three tailors who usually make Muslim clothing for sale online. He’s now postponing other orders to finish the hazmat suits first.
Dimursi has a list of 20 hospitals that urgently need them. GMZ Hospital in Lampung province will be among the first recipients. When a recent patient was being monitored for possible Covid-19, the hospital had only eight hazmat suits left. The pharmacist, the registration official and others wore plastic raincoats.
“Then there was a friend, who is a doctor, urged me to keep providing hazmat suits. He told me that the hazmat suit would be much better than the plastic raincoat” in an emergency, Dimursi said.
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