Varsity students make face shields for hospitals


Protective gear: (Left) UTHM used 3D printers to produce 500 face shields, which it handed to hospitals.

PETALING JAYA: Taylor’s University Me.reka Makerspace has started producing face shields to donate to hospitals which are running low on the item. Taylor’s Me.reka Makerspace began production of the face shields, which is a Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), on Monday after finding out that an estimated 40,000 face shields a month were needed by medical professionals.

Describing the initiative as a “decentralised production plan”, Taylor’s Me.reka Makerspace makerlab coordinator She Tze Jin said over 1,000 face shields have been donated to hospitals by Monday night.

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