The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said its Shared Service Facility (SSF) Fabrication Laboratories (FabLabs) produced and distributed 59,127 face shields and 230 aerosol boxes to 1,026 hospitals nationwide. “There is a growing community of makers in our regions, particularly the MSME (micro, small and medium enterprise) sector, who have been helping the country in providing our healthcare workers and frontliners with locally-fabricated PPE (personal protective equipment),” Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said in a statement. Twenty-four DTI-funded and supported SSF FabLabs, along with privately-run FabLabs, collaborated with Filipino professionals, doctors, members of the academe, experts from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fab Networks across the globe to produce medical-grade PPEs.

Source: Manila Times April 26, 2020 17:48 UTC