By the end of the day on Tuesday, 80 medical face shields designed and produced at Western University will be in a London, Ont., hospital for testing.
By next week, as many as 1,000 could be used by front-line healthcare workers. The quick turnaround is thanks to a collaborative effort that began in University Machine Services (UMS), an ancillary service based out of the engineering department of Western University in response to the growing demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I looked at my email last Sunday morning and there was an email that had been copied and sent through that quoted my current dean, Dr.