{"id":2948,"date":"2020-05-22T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2020-05-22T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:31:39","slug":"st-marys-goes-burberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2020\/05\/22\/st-marys-goes-burberry\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mary\u2019s goes Burberry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr Sanjay Purkayastha<\/a>,\u00a0Clinical Senior Lecturer in Bariatric Surgery\u00a0and Consultant Surgeon\u00a0for the Department, has\u00a0worked\u00a0with fashion retailer\u00a0Burberry<\/a> to supply St Mary’s Hospital with one tonne of surgical gowns.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March, as St Mary\u2019s hospital filled up with COVID-19 patients,\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals\u00a0<\/span>who provided<\/span>\u00a0ward care\u00a0<\/span>began to worry about the amount of PPE available to protect them from the virus.\u00a0<\/span>Acting on t<\/span>his<\/span>, M<\/span>r Purkayastha\u00a0<\/span>contacted luxury fashion company<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Burberry about\u00a0<\/span>helping<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>keep<\/span>\u00a0our<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>hospital<\/span>\u00a0s<\/span>taff\u00a0<\/span>safe<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As\u00a0<\/span>someone who trained<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0worked,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>whose children<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>were<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>born\u00a0<\/span>at St Mary\u2019s<\/span>, M<\/span>r Purkayastha<\/span> wanted to help the hospital during these difficult times in any way he could<\/span>. Amazingly,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>senior Burberry management\u00a0<\/span>responded to his call to arms within days and <\/span>agreed to produce surgical gowns<\/span> for the St Mary’s Hospital<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Initial samples of the Burberry gowns were sent to\u00a0<\/span>IPC for thorough testing<\/span>, where they received a glowing review and were said to be some of the best gowns they had seen.\u00a0<\/span>After being tested and certified for use, Burberry delivered one\u00a0<\/span>tonne<\/span>\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0high-quality\u00a0<\/span>gowns (around 2,000) to\u00a0<\/span>be used at St Mary\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The gowns have been greatly appreciated and are now hot property on the ward<\/span>s as everyone wants to wear the<\/span>se<\/span>\u00a0light weight, protective and\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>fashionable<\/span>\u2019<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>pieces of attire<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Staff across the Department and hospital would like to say a huge thank you to Burberry\u00a0<\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>stepping up in these\u00a0<\/span>difficult times and helping protect our key workers. We would also like to thank Sanjay for <\/span>his<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>foresight<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>hard<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>work<\/span>\u00a0to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>ma<\/span>k<\/span>e this possible.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr Sanjay Purkayastha,\u00a0Clinical Senior Lecturer in Bariatric Surgery\u00a0and Consultant Surgeon\u00a0for the Department, has\u00a0worked\u00a0with fashion retailer\u00a0Burberry to supply St Mary’s Hospital with one tonne of surgical gowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}