My wife is in a Craft Group and they have been asked by a charitably minded person if they will help by making some bags for nurses to use to carry their "scrubs" home for washing.
I was shocked that this is expected of Health Workers. Does anyone know what is typical practice?
Wash-your-own has been widespread since the last century. Nurses etc can claim an expenses allowance for it. Stiffly starched cotton aprons etc long gone :)
Partner has already made a batch for our local hospital. (As many as she can manage.) Luckily had a fair bit of suitable cotton material. The people who got hers are very lucky - she is an excellent machine sewer and they looked rather nice!
I was a little surprised they didn't already have suitabke bags.
What has long shocked me is nurses (and others) wearing their uniforms in the street, on public transport, in shops, etc. That has always been asking for infections to be transferred between hospital and outside - potentially in both directions.
polygonum_on_google snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
My concern is also one of hygeine. When I worked on the shop floor at an engineering company we all had 3 overalls - one to wear - one spare in the locker - and one off at the cleaners. Surprised the NHS doesn't consider a laundry service essential.
Not any more they dont. Many have been outsourced which resulted in a lot of high-quality 'scrubs' etc vanishing (pinched and sold on ebay or sent abroad ('back home').
Consequently many health trusts rely on cheaper single-use garments which are then dependent on a global just-in-time supply.
Except many hospitals had outsourced their laundry facilities for much of their 'linen' and then done the maths and realised that, like Primark they can just get a 'never ending' supply of cheap single-use garments from overseas.
Girl who worked in my local hairdresser would buy packs of 5 teeshirts in Primark, wear one per day and just bin then.
Works fine until something or someone throws a spanner in the works, like a Pandemic.
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