Kindness in adversity

When Dryfemount Care Home in Lockerbie, which has 29 residents and 45 staff, was struggling to get hold of sanitiser to keep residents and staff safe, it put out an SOS. This, fortunately, was picked up by local company ECO, which has a base in Annan, who donated and delivered five-litres of its specialist anti-virus sanitiser and eight reusable visors.

‘This is life-saving equipment to us,’ said John Whitehouse, deputy manager at Dryfemount Care Home. ‘It allows us to keep our residents and staff safe. It is an extremely generous gesture and we are very grateful. We were really struggling to source any hand sanitiser – everyone we contacted said there was none available because it was all going to the NHS.

John Whitehouse, deputy manager of Dryfemount Care Home in Lockerbie, who has thanked rapid response specialists ECO. Susan Robson, of Dryfemount Care Home in Lockerbie, with anti-virus sanitiser donated by ECO.

“Then we heard that ECO had a secure supply of sanitiser and we got in touch and asked for a price list. Before we got a price list back a message came back via ECO’s boss to say they would donate some to us and that they could also sort us out with visors as well. With all that’s going on in the world, it’s gestures like this which make you feel like everything is worthwhile.”

ECO has set up a full COVID-19 rapid response solutions operation which works in the private sector and is manufacturing visors for the NHS. It is also supplying anti-virus sanitiser, has an on-call emergency sanitising team, can set up field hospitals, while the company is also rolling out rapid response testing solutions which include rapidly deployable virus containment and testing pods.

• For more information, see www.teameco.co.uk