Defence is playing its part in protecting Australia’s medical professionals in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
A dozen Defence personnel are assisting a small Victorian regional manufacturer to satisfy the necessary increase in demand for surgical facemasks.
Med-Con Pty Ltd in Lemnos, near Shepparton, is Australia’s only manufacturer of surgical face masks. However, they need urgent assistance to increase production while the company recruits more staff and expands its manufacturing capacity.
The 12 Defence specialists will be trained and supervised by the company’s existing staff and will work on production, maintenance and warehousing tasks.
The task falls under Defence’s Aid to the Civil Community framework, and comes at the request of the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources as part of the integrated national response to the outbreak.
