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| Business in Tirana producing protective masks |
He is an artist and all his life he has been dealing with paintings and frames, and he never thought that he would produce protective masks in his ward. People need to be helped in these dangerous times, with everything we have at hand, he thought.
"The demand is very high. I don't know how long we will continue like this, how long we will be able to continue. We have many demands from all the hospitals. Some of my friends helped me with the materials." He says.
His design and decor studio is using all the material and financial reserves to produce medical masks. Albani donates these masks to doctors in hospitals and to state police officers on duty.
"We donated the first quantities of masks to the "Queen Geraldine" Maternity Hospital. We sent the rest to Durrës Hospital. Today we are producing for Durrës Hospital and we will send a smaller amount to the state police. Then it is the turn of Shkodra Hospital and "Shefqet Ndroqi Hospital, which is "COVID 2 Hospital" - he says.
Albani says that even the friends who help him in production and mounting are volunteers, his friends who came to help him as soon as they learned the good wish to donate these masks. He even says that an emergency doctor comes to his ward to help until late at night.
His initiative has already become known in the capital. From time to time his phone rings for masks, and from time to time in the door of his business appear ordinary citizens looking for packages of masks, which they also donate elsewhere where they need them.
Doctors who have used Alban's first masks have also made suggestions to improve this handicraft product, a handmade product, which the company is producing just for these difficult times.
They suggested how to slightly shorten the length of the mask, how to fix the circle on top and how to carve plastic fortresses on the forehead so that the whole mask becomes as convenient as possible for doctors and does not hinder them during work. All they are perfecting this new Albanian product day by day.
The orders and needs are plentiful, but Albani continues to produce and distribute these masks for free, although the costs are considerable for a small business like this one in the capital.
His initiative is not the only one. In Tirana and other cities, there are several small businesses that have adapted to produce face masks, gloves, and mouth masks.
The number of people affected by COVID is increasing and the need for masks is ever greater.