The Royal Mint and prisoners are joining a push to provide personal protective equipment to NHS staff during theInmates at eight jails around the country will this week start making scrubs and face visors as a way of saving the health service money in light of surging PPE prices, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland toldThe Royal Mint has begun manufacturing medical visors and hopes to make nearly two million to protect medical workers across England and Wales against Covid-19.
Justice Secretary Mr Buckland said: ‘Staff in our NHS are doing an incredible job … and I’m delighted that inmates are supporting them by producing equipment to help keep them safe.’The category B and C prisons involved in the effort include Swansea, Channings Wood in Devon, Wakefield, Highpoint in Suffolk, Whatton in Nottinghamshire and New Hall in West Yorkshire, which holds women and young offenders.