Stawell Regional Health teams with Carey Covers to create custom PPE

Cassandra Dalgleish
Updated April 23 2020 - 7:37pm, first published 12:00pm
On the left is a nurse wearing the stock-standard face shield, while on the right the nurse is wearing the new prototype in an educational setting. The prototype takes into account the preferences clinicians expressed. It covers the face fully, allowing for a surgical or N95 mask to be worn underneath. Picture: CONTRIBUTED
On the left is a nurse wearing the stock-standard face shield, while on the right the nurse is wearing the new prototype in an educational setting. The prototype takes into account the preferences clinicians expressed. It covers the face fully, allowing for a surgical or N95 mask to be worn underneath. Picture: CONTRIBUTED

A WIMMERA health service has found its own regional solution to a nationwide issue.

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Cassandra Dalgleish

Cassandra Dalgleish

Digital specialist

Digital specialist at the Bendigo Advertiser, via Wimmera Mail-Times, Stawell Times-News and Ararat Advertiser. Formerly a news journalist and sub-editor. I do the behind-the-scenes work to help journalists bring their stories to life online.

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