translated from Spanish: Clothing brands make clinical uniforms to donate to health care staff

Inspired by the reaction of the world’s big fashion companies that put their factories at the service of health to combat Covid-19, Daniel Cassorla, owner of the Efesis and Cacao brands decided to do the same from their Conchalí factory: “We are among the few brands left in Chile making almost 100% of what is marketed and that is what allows us to put ourselves together with our collaborators at the service of the real heroes of this pandemic, which are health officials.”
Since Covid-19 spreading around the world, there have been several initiatives from major brands that have provided with inputs to combat propagation, from Dior, Guerlain and Clarins that is making gel alcohol to Inditex, owners of Zara, H&M and the Gap group. That’s how this inciciative is born. Because fashion and jeans can and should wait. The health of
Chileans is the only priority.
Through his father-in-law, the outstanding pediatrician Alfredo Misraji who has a wide career linked to public health, Cassorla contacted the medical director of Roberto del Río Hospital, Ricardo Pinto, to invite him to make an alliance; Ephesis would put its factories and its workers at service 100% of an area so far away, medicine. Thus they committed to manufacture 500 clinical uniforms for nurses and tens of the Hospital, who by safety measures must be changing their costumes more often than usual.” We saw what was going on in the world with brands that are referent to us and thought about how we could do something similar and better. We called Dr. Pinto, medical director of the Hospital, and the next day we were signing to realize our dream,” Cassorla says.
To achieve the goal of making uniforms, all officials were voluntarily presented, they are the ones who despite being going through a quarantine have come to their sewing machines and the ironing, even the quality control staff came, “it is really a pride to be collaborating at this very complicated time that we are going through as a country , making the uniforms for health professionals,” says Maribel Muñoz, one of the workers.
“Today we are part of that minority of companies that have joined what is known worldwide as an industrial reversation in the face of this pandemic. We are a textile company that made jeans and T-shirts, and today we make clinical uniforms and masks. Tomorrow, we could make sheets, aprons, curtains, the whole clinical and hospital textile part,” concludes the driver of this donation.
This Thursday at 11:00 am in Hospital Roberto del Río is scheduled delivery, and for that reason the machines have not stopped sewing for several days.

Original source in Spanish

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