How this nurse designer from Iloilo made Teletubbies-themed PPEs for fellow frontliners and brought smiles all around

It all started when a friend gave Adrian Pe a roll of purple fabric.

Adrien is a nurse and a self-taught designer from Iloilo seeking to address the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). 

A friend gave Adrian a roll of purple fabric but it wasn't enough. So he started looking for blue and white fabric. When those weren't available, Adrian ended up choosing green and yellow.

"The I realized I was only lacking the red to complete the Teletubbies characters," he told GMA News Online.

 

 

 

 

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#teletubbies themed hazmats for our Frontliners ?????????????? #adrianizedPPE thank you sponsors!!! "I work a lot in the hospital and the work there is exhausting. And I have always taught myself to look for the beauty in it; to look in the beauty in the faces of the patients and to be grateful. And I will bring this aspect as a Nurse Designer, to see situations with a SILVER LINING. And to assess where I could give something; where I could provide something as a spokesperson. And if I can teach people to be grateful, we can have an amazing world where #COVID19 cannot grow and prosper, and children will have smiles on their faces." @catriona_gray

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Mar 29, 2020 at 2:31am PDT

Adrian, who is an operating nurse at The Medical City, said he and his fellow frontliners are fed up with all the negative news on COVID-19.

"I then saw the silver lining in it, and posted the photos on social media," Adrian said.

It worked like a charm. "I am overwhelmed to see positive feedbacks and I'm more motivated with this cause. They are very supportive... I really believe that we make a good team."

Adrian said aside from giving to their hospital, they are also giving away PPEs prioritizing COVID-19 centers and the triaging or isolation areas in district hospitals.

 

 

 

 

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Our #covid19 story. Improvised PPE by TMCI NURSES #ORnurse

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Mar 27, 2020 at 8:57am PDT

Fashion designers, doctors and volunteers have joined forces to make PPE alternatives. The Office of the Vice President has started the mass production of the first medically-reviewed PPE suit, designed by Mich Dulce.

Meanwhile, medical practitioners in Baguio, students from the Technological University of the Philippines -Visayas and medical interns at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health have all started creating alternative PPEs to be used by frontliners.

Eat Bulaga has also donated 3D printers to the University of Santo Tomas to help produce PPEs for their frontliners. — Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News