A TRAVEL firm is donating equipment worth £250,000 to help nurses dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
Online company Trtl is handing over its stockpile of compression socks to help nurses fight fatigue on the wards.
A total of 5,000 pairs have been given to acute nurses in hospitals across Scotland in the past two weeks and the firm plans to distribute 5,000 more in London in the next week.
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The Glasgow online travel retailer said sales have fallen 95 per cent in the past two weeks and Michael Corrigan, chief executive, said he wants to help those on the front-line by donating the surplus socks.
He said: “Although the compression socks have been most popular with airline travellers, at the start of this year we ran a small campaign with nurses around the world and they were really happy with them.”
He added that “nurses need all the help they can get just now”.
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital have each received 1,000 pairs.
Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary have both been given 500 pairs.
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