Specially made: A TAR UC student making a PPE suit.
PLAYING its part in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TAR UC) has initiated a number of initiatives in support of our healthcare providers.
The first initiative is a joint collaboration between its Faculty of Communication and Creative Industries and Malaysian fashion designer Datuk Radzuan Radziwill to produce 400 personal protective equipment (PPE) for health professionals in a number of public hospitals.
“We were given the task of cutting the materials into specific sizes before handing them over to the next team to proceed with the next step of production, ” said the faculty’s Department of Creative Industries programme leader and senior lecturer Jamalruddin Zamahuri.
At the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, 3D-printed face shields were made for healthcare personnel in Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
Its Department of Materials Engineering associate dean Ong Thai Kiat who has been coordinating the project said the faculty has been keeping abreast with the latest news from the Health Ministry to see if there are any other ways they can help.
“We immediately discussed and pulled together the necessary resources to start production using the 3D printers available at the campus once we were informed by Hospital Kuala Lumpur’s director and head of the pharmacy resource centre of the shortage.”
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