THE CITY HALL OF SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA CONTINUES TO ENSURE PPE TO SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

The City Hall of Santa Maria da Feira continues to provide all Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS) with the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) necessary for its activity of providing care to users in a safe manner. At this stage, the City Hall is providing more than 3,500 protection gowns to 47 IPSS, throughout the municipality.

The Mayor of Santa Maria da Feira, Emídio Sousa, dedicated the afternoon of June 24, to accompany the offer of hospital gowns to the IPSS of the municipality. Paços de Brandão Social Center, São Paio de Oleiros Social Support Movement and Romariz Social and Parish Center were the three institutions visited, also allowing the Mayor to contact on the ground those responsible for the institutions and some of their workers, getting to know about their difficulties, concerns and desires in this period of fighting COVID-19.

Emídio Sousa said that this action is part of the support that the City Hall has been providing to all IPSS in the Municipality, so that "they are able to give the safest answer to their users, the vast majority of which are at-risk groups, also guarding their security", a support that "should be guaranteed by the State, which has not happened or has been residual and insufficient", highlighted the Mayor.

Waterproof, washable and certified, the gowns were produced by a local company, Albarrada Têxteis, located in São João de Ver, a small company that, as the Mayor stressed, "adapted to current market needs and developed a new product, in conjunction with professionals from Hospital S. Sebastião, already certified by CITEVE (Technological, Textile and Clothing Center)”.

The gowns, with a design and color different from the traditional hospital gowns, are environmentally "friendly", because they ensure the quality of up to 50 washes and are also the result of the dynamism and entrepreneurship of a company from Santa Maria da Feira that, despite adversity, found a solution to continue its activity and so maintained jobs, leaving the lay-off behind and beginning the production of different types of hospital gowns, masks and cuffs.