DATYON — The medical community is not masking how seriously it needs personal protective gear as it prepares for more coronavirus cases.
Leaders with Premier Health said the organization is running low on masks and gowns.
“Right now we've got orders out. The question is whether those orders will come in,” Dean said.
Now, Premier Health has more than 750 volunteers making masks and gowns for if healthcare workers run out of PPE.
“If all else fails and supplies dwindle, we need to have something to protect our workers,” Lanie Dean, the assistant vice president of strategy and business development for Premier Health said.
Sandy Goodwin is sewing the masks and gowns for Premier Health and Kettering Health Network from her Fairborn home.
“I hope that it protects the people that are wearing it and that we can get through this without many more lives being affected,” Goodwin said.
She has help. Goodwin said three boys from her church, Chase, Connor, and Caleb Williams are cutting fabric for her.
“It is so exciting because they want to do something,” Goodwin said.
Dean said there will be removable filters in all of the masks to increase protection.
Goodwin said each mask takes her about 45 minutes to make. She is following a specific pattern Premier Health asked for.
Here is a link to the pattern.