A group of innovative Offaly, based businessmen have come to the rescue of the regional hospital in the county, where personal protection equipment levels were at a critically low level.
Around 3,000 disposable gowns were delivered to the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore for use by frontline staff. The delivery could not have come at a better time, with the hospital's Quality and Patient Safety Manager, Brendan Reddy, admitting that PPE for frontline staff was "at critically low levels." While the Irish-made disposable gowns are the brainchild of local businessman, Merv Colton, who runs a kitchen design company in Tullamore called Age-Tek Design, he said the project is "very much a collaborative effort involving a large number of