Main Image: The Rediroom can turn any hospital bed into a secure isolation unit (Gama Healthcare). Listen: Ken & Nicky speak with Anna and Justin Ballantyne, designers of the Rediroom.
Only weeks after Queensland bio-tech company Ellume was awarded a $300 million contract to supply at home COVID tests in the United States, another local invention has racked up $10 million in sales within the space of a year.
The Rediroom is a pop-up isolation station that was designed and developed by Sunshine Coast Clinical Nurse Anna Ballantyne and her husband Justin, alongside business partner James Burkwood and Gama Healthcare. The invention is easily transported, meaning that hospitals can treat infectious patients anywhere, rather than in only a traditional isolation ward.
96five’s Heart of Christmas Wrap Up All our Grandies volunteers want to support the elderly, and remind them that are loved, cared for and appreciated.
By Justin RouillonThursday 17 Dec 2020
Main Image: Grandies volunteers gift wrapping presents for distribution to the elderly in our community.
In late November 96five launched our annual Heart of Christmas campaign – this year partnering with the Brisbane & Gold Coast Grandies.
The organisation has a focus on supporting the elderly; the grandmas and grandpas who may either be at home alone, or in hostels or nursing homes with no family nearby to support them.
We put the call out, and as usual 96five listeners stepped up to the plate; either in adopting their very own Grandie, or through donations of gifts and wrapping paper.