Staff of the Da Nang Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital and the city-based Family Hospital have made face shields with low-cost and quick-production design to protect frontline healthcare workers from a highly contagious coronavirus.

Medical workers of the Da Nang Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital making face shields

A face shield is made from a sheet of clear and thin plastic held over the head by a polyethylene foam band. It can be cleaned and disinfected easily.

The shield is simple by its design but effective for its purpose. Medical staff wear face shields over face masks while treating infected patients to protect themselves against flying respiratory droplets that can transmit coronavirus, such as from coughs and sneezes.

Therefore, this is must-have layer of protection for medical workers apart from medical face masks.

Dr. Nguyen Phuoc Dung, Secretary of the Youth Union organisation of the city's Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital, said that the hospital's youth union members have already made about 200 face shields, at a production cost of only 5,000 VND each, during their free time.

Over 100 similar face shields have been made by staff of the Technical -Technology Office of the Family Hospital.

Currently, many healthcare facilities in the city are making this kind of face shields to help their staff protect themselves from coronavirus in order to stop the spread of the deadly disease.

Materials to make face shields can be easily purchased in bookstores and stationery stores

Medical staff wear a face shields over a face mask

Security guards at the Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital wearing face shields

 By XUAN SON - Translated by MAI DUNG