The production of 'shield masks' by Instituto Santos Dumont (ISD) for donation to hospitals was listed this weekend in the newspaper Tribuna do Norte among the “stories of solidarity” that help alleviate the crisis and shortages that the Covid-19 pandemic – the disease caused by the new coronavirus – it burst open.
The report "In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a wave of solidarity mobilizes potiguares” deals with initiatives such as Varal Solidário, by a seamstress and her daughter who make cloth masks for the most vulnerable populations, the distribution of basic food baskets that encourage the production of family farming, in addition to invested by several institutions that engaged to meet the urgent demand of health professionals and patients in the state, as is the case with the shield-masks that researchers and students of the master's degree in neuroengineering at the International Institute of Neurosciences Edmond and Lily Safra, from ISD, have been producing since the end of March.
“When the pandemic began and there was a shortage of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) on the market, the students and researchers joined forces to help solve this problem,” says the Institute’s research coordinator, Edgard Morya, in the report. In just over a month, ISD produced and donated around 1,180 masks to at least 49 hospitals and health units in the RN.
- Read the full report on the Tribuna do Norte website:
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a wave of solidarity mobilizes potiguares
Central has already raised more than R$ 1.6 million in donations.
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ISD's 'shield masks', also called face shields, use acetate as raw material and have a support made with plastic filament produced in 3D printers.
The mold was assembled based on the opinion of doctors and nurses to ensure the safety and comfort of the professionals who will use them.
The donation is institutional, that is, it is not made directly from ISD to individuals or professionals. It is the director of the interested institution who should contact the Institute (by email covid19@isd.org.br).
The Santos Dumont Institute is a Social Organization linked to the Ministry of Education.
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Text: Renata Moura / Ascom – ISD
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Santos Dumont Institute (ISD)
Social organization that maintains ties with the Ministry of Education (MEC) and whose mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions and to contribute to a fairer and more humane transformation of the Brazilian social reality.
