Aurangabad hospital gets advanced face shields from non-profit organisation in US – ET HealthWorld

Sanjay Vakil, who is a senior product manager at Google, has facilitated the help through ‘MasksOn.org,’ a non-profit organisation that was started to produce reusable and sanitisable face-shields for medical purposes.

“The face-shields devised by us are basically snorkel masks which are made from biocompatible plastics. Besides being reusable and easy to sterilise, these shields are fast to put on and offers utmost safety to doctors and health workers having fitted with bacterial/viral filter,” said Vakil, who is also executive director of ‘MasksOn.org’.

The non-profit organisation has shipped over 36,000 advanced face-shields to different parts of USA and other parts of the world with Visakhapatnam from Andhra Pradesh is the only city from India after Aurangabad having received such donation.

“Considering manufacturing and shipment cost, the cost of each mask comes out to be in the range of 30 dollar to 35 dollar per device. We arrange donations using which these masks are distributed absolutely free of cost to hospitals. We raised over two million dollars in charity with 100% of the money received through donations was spent on sourcing full-face snorkel masks, further manufacturing, printing and shipping assembled face shields to hospitals,” Vakil said.