Penang gov't funds engineer's initiative to supply face shields to Penang GH
CORONAVIRUS | Creativity and effort by a young Penangite engineer, Louis Ooi Shiong Yirk paid off when the Penang government decided to support his cause to provide lower-cost face shields to the Penang General Hospital and health clinics.
Yesterday, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow met Ooi, 28, and his team members who came up with the new face shield already in use with local medical frontliners.
The new face shield has gained recognition from medical experts at the Penang General Hospital for being "safer, more comfortable to wear, cheaper and easier to make...
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