A Doctor writes name on his colleague's suit at Xianghu Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
The garment factory built a production line of protective suits for medics in eight days amid COVID-19 outbreak.
URUMQI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- A garment factory in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has built a production line to make protective suits for medics in eight days in a nationwide effort to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Protective suits along with hospital facilities are imperative for improving admission and survival rates and reducing infection and fatality rates in China's fight against the epidemic.
Liu Xianghong, general manager of the Korla Bingjuan Garment Co., Ltd., said that the company set up the special line in eight days for the production of medical protective suits to assist the national efforts in easing the supply shortage.
Liu said workers need to go through four disinfection procedures before entering the workshop to engage in the production of medical suits.
The company is now engaged in around-the-clock production, Liu said.
The company, based in the Korla Economic and Technological Development Zone, has become the first medical protective clothes producer in southern Xinjiang.
The production line passed an official appraisal earlier last week, and went into production on Sunday. It is churning out 1,000 sets of suits daily. ■
