Ysgol Dinas Bran staff make visors for frontline NHS teams

* Staff at Llangollen Health Centre wearing the visors made by Ysgol Dinas Bran.

Members of a school design and technology department have used their skills from the classroom to make visors for frontline NHS staff to protect themselves against coronavirus.

Gethin Williams, head of technology at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen, and his colleague Michael Roberts have so far produced almost 80 of these plastic face-guards which prevent wearers from breathing in the virus as they are dealing with patients.    

So far the visors have been sent out to the local health centre and to other health facilities across the region.

They are now trying to get hold of other materials to manufacture further batches of the vital pieces of equipment.

Gethin said: “As we’re aware from the media, there’s a shortage of PPE – protective personal equipment - for the NHS.

“Myself and our brilliant technician Michael Roberts decided after seeing some online to make some visors using our materials and resources at the school.

“We managed to make 78 of these at the school the other day and they have been distributed to Llangollen Health Centre and across North Wales.

“I am trying to source more material to try and make some more because as soon as they were made they were being picked up or dropped off.”

He added: “We cut them in school on Tuesday and my wife, who works for the NHS, and daughter helped me assemble most of them at home.

“My colleague from school Jamie Roberts took some to assemble at home for Llangollen Surgery and the rest were distributed across north Wales.

“Other Design and Technology departments have started to do the same thing now.

“We collaborated with Ysgol Friars in Bangor and Ysgol Bryn Elian in Colwyn Bay to make more and aim to try and do more next week if we can source materials.”