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Homemade Tibetan PPE

April 28, 2020;

A Tibetan man in Kangra, India, has taken it upon himself to fight COVID-19 by making his own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to donate to hospitals. Wangdue Dorjee began by making face shields from recycled drinks bottles but now is producing masks from sheets of transparent plastic. Wangdue has enlisted members of the Tibetan Khampa Industrial Society, and together 750 emergency face shields have been donated to local government hospitals.

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