The Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has completed a state-of-the-art textile and garment factory at the Robert Mugabe School of Education in the Masvingo industrial area to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE) and other materials for frontline health workers. The university is also producing hand sanitisers in the country’s fight against COVID-19.
GZU director for information and public relations Anderson Chipatiso said the new factory would also impart students of the school practical lessons in garment manufacturing, according to a report in a national newspaper.The Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has completed a state-of-the-art textile and garment factory at the Robert Mugabe School of Education in the Masvingo industrial area to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE) and other materials for frontline health workers. The university is also producing hand sanitisers in the country's fight against COVID-19.#
“The factory will allow mass production of PPE, which we hope will go a long way in equipping our health personnel at the frontline of the Covid-19 fight,” he said.
The factory will bring down the cost of PPEs, making them accessible especially to workers at public health institutions.
The university is also at an advanced stage of building a proper hand sanitiser factory where it will mass produce the commodity, he added. GZU is currently manufacturing sanitiser at a makeshift facility at Zimdef Complex near Rujeko suburb.
Ethanol for sanitiser is procured from sugar factories in Chiredzi.
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