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A British company may be forced to send 500,000 visors abroad, which is desperately needed by NHS personnel, as the Government has not ordered any.
Nottingham’s Printers Prime Group transformed its operation and hired 30 additional employees ready to make up to a million visors per month, equivalent to 35,000 per day.
But the firm is frustrated that despite contacting officials a month ago, no requests have been made.
You’ve already delivered 350,000 to the front-line NHS and care staff here for free or at cost.
But Chief Jon Tolley revealed that they had been unable to obtain a large order from the NHS after investing £ 250,000 in materials.
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Instead, he has been dealing with individual NHS trusts for orders of 1,000 to 30,000 viewers.
By the end of this week, there will be 100,000 in stock with no buyers assigned, which could end up being sold abroad.
You need an agreement to insure the work of your own workers.
Jon said: “I have the material to make another 500,000. I have to decide whether to sell that material to Europe as there is demand. They are already making our designs. “
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He decided to make the visors after his wife, an intensive care nurse, informed him of the shortage.
“My wife had a shift in March and told me they were desperately running out of PPE,” said Jon, 47, whose visors have been approved by doctors.
“We have had nurses who contacted us crying and told us” please help, we are desperate. “
“We are telling the government, instead of importing from abroad, come to us.”
The Government says it has received more than 8,000 offers of support from PPE providers.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “We are accelerating the progress of returning to all those companies with a substantive response.”
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