A Dublin secondary school teacher has appealed to schools to donate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that is lying idle in their science labs to hospitals or other facilities, such as nursing homes.
School science labs typically have protective googles, gloves, and anti-bacterial soaps for use by teachers and students during science experiments.
Amy Doolan, a Science and Maths teacher at Coolmine Community School, brought goggles, gloves and soap to nearby Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown yesterday where it was accepted. "We had 6,000 pairs of gloves just lying in the shelves in the lab", she told RTÉ News. "Forty unopened containers of anti-bacterial soap, and 12 unopened protective goggles". "We gathered up all the boxes, put them in