Fashion designer creates high-end medical gowns for Edward-Elmhurst Health
Faced with a shortage of PPE earlier this year, Edward-Elmhurst Health CEO Mary Lou Mastro, left, reached out to fashion designer Mac Duggal, middle, and his son, Yuvraj Duggal, who designed and created custom isolation gowns for hospital staff members. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Fashion designer Mac Duggal demonstrates the isolation gowns he created for Edward-Elmhurst Health employees, complete with Velcro and the ability to be tied on by the user without help. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Mac Duggal shows off the isolation gowns he created for Edward-Elmhurst Health employees when the hospital system faced a supply shortage earlier this year.
Some Chicago area hospitals that were expecting vaccine shipments to arrive Tuesday were frustrated and angered to find they did not. You can actually feel within the health care system and the hospitals this change in culture this excitement and enthusiasm to realize that we are able to do something now to make a difference and change the course of the pandemic, Mastro said.
Elmhurst Hospital also received doses of the Pfizer vaccine Thursday morning.
Kevin Rehder, the pharmacy director at Edward Hospital explained that the vaccines were taken out of ultra-cold freezers and delivered in a refrigerated state.
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WARRENVILLE, Ill., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Healthcare workers on the COVID-19 units at Edward Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital, part of the Edward-Elmhurst Health system in suburban Chicago, got a high-fashion boost this year when a renowned designer created isolation gowns for them during a shortage of personal protective equipment.
Mac Duggal, known for creating special occasion gowns, shifted focus to medical isolation gowns after he was contacted by Edward-Elmhurst Health CEO
Mary Lou Mastro.
Haley McNamara (left) and Kelly Bratsos (right), nurses on the Intensive Care Unit at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., wear isolation gowns created by fashion designer Mac Duggal for Edward-Elmhurst Health.
COVID vaccines arrive in Illinois, first shots to be given today
FOX 32 s Joanie Lum reports.
CHICAGO - The first
Governor
JB Pritzker will be on hand at the St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria at 11 AM when the first ceremonial shot is given.
The state is expected to receive 109,000 doses initially. On Monday,
The governor says this is a much anticipated moment during the pandemic.
“We are seeing the beginning of the end of the pandemic,” Pritzker said.
The governor was present to witness the state s first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine, arriving under constant surveillance at an undisclosed location.