Paisley stays safe as ECO delivers lifesaving gear
A Scots firm has delivered more than one million items of lifesaving equipment to care homes across the country including Paisley.
A staggering 525,000 surgical masks, 500,000 disposable aprons, and 10,000 litres of hand sanitiser have been sourced and distributed by ECO in this week alone.
The company formed a rapid response team to combat the Covid- 19 emergency affecting the care sector with staff in many homes lacking vital PPE (personal protective equipment) as they tend for patients stricken with the virus.
ECO, based in Annan, Dumfrieshire, have answered the coronavirus SOS up and down the country by sending the kit to homes in Paisley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Perth and across the UK.
The firm has also set up a rapid response operation, and a special medical division with a range of anti-virus sanitiser and PPE, including masks and visors, testing kits, testing pods and medical beds.
Paul Currie, Eco’s contracts manager, said: “We have worked with UK companies to source a sustainable supply of PPE here in this country, which is available to help people right now.
“We have supplied hundreds of care homes across the country, from individual homes to large groups, and right across the UK from Essex to Perthshire and everywhere inbetween.
“With the shortage of PPE around the country we wanted to use our expertise to step in and see what we could do to help.”
ECO added they have helped care homes across the UK, including those in London, the West Midlands, Yorkshire, the NorthEast, Merseyside, and Cumbria.
Paul added: “The feedback from care homes has been very positive. Procurement teams have thanked us for our swift action, for the quality of the equipment, and for keeping costs down.”
He added they have already answered the call to help a factory, which has a government order for manufacturing vital material for visors for the NHS, to continue production 24/7 by supplying anti-virus sanitiser and an on-call emergency sanitising team.
Eddie Black, managing director of ECO, added: “Care home staff all over the country - just like the NHS and other emergency workers - are doing an incredible job.
“If anyone needs our expertise, we will get our teams onto it immediately to achieve what needs to be done.”
The firm are also launching back-to-work sanitising kits for when the lockdown starts to be lifted.
When organisations are able to reopen ECO has sanitising kits suitable for a range of business needs from a one-person builder to a call centre employing 500 people.
We wanted to use our expertise to step in and see what we could do to help