Social Responsibility

A chance encounter at the recent SAPNA Conference in Adelaide [SA Perioperative Nursing Association] was truly fortuitous when Alex Chen of Haines’ Solutions Lab Team met Annys Routley and Sylvia John from The Stables Christian Centre. Why fortuitous? Because now the two groups are working together to provide medical aid to Papua New Guinea!

This was a very timely meeting that’s led to a wonderful collaboration to divert much needed medical supplies to Papua New Guinea – a nation desperate for medical resources. In early 2020 at the start of the pandemic, medical products such as protective bed sheets, linen and mortuary bags were in short supply – caused by the sharp increase in global demand for raw materials to produce personal protective equipment (PPE). Do you remember the panic about PPE, around then?

Time has moved on, and raw materials are more readily available. Now with an excess of stock – and appalled at the idea of sending useful equipment to landfill – we started brainstorming for possible solutions.

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