Staff at one of Scotland's smallest health boards has thanked the community for hundreds of donations with the help of a nineties pop band.
Doctors and nurses at NHS Shetland appealed to the island community for bed sheets and spare fabric to help make extra scrubs as they prepared for a 'tsunami' of the coronavirus.
And when they were inundated with hundreds of donations, they said thank you in the best way possible.
Nineties pop group Right Said Fred stepped in to help staff at the health board with a music video to the tune of their number one hit song 'I'm too Sexy'.
Lead singer Fred Fairbrass recorded vocals for a new version: "I'm too sexy for my scrubs'.
READ MORE: Local fire station writes lockdown poem for worried four-year-old and pays emotional visit
The song was played over a compilation of catwalk videos filmed by doctors and nurses within the area's hospitals - including their interim medical director Brian Chittick.
It features lyrics including ‘I’m too sexy for my scrubs/so grateful for my scrubs’ and ‘I’m too sexy for Milan/too sexy for Milan, New York and Shetland’, and thanked everyone for washing their hands.
Hundreds of shirts and trousers have been sewn together from across the isles as part of the Shetland Scrubs campaign, which was launched after the hospitals began to suffer a 'chronic shortage' of medical clothing.
Some of the garments feature popular kids TV show characters and sweets, and enough has been provided that they can be distributed to local care homes as well as hotpials.
The incredible video was organised by health improvement practitioner Claire Morris.
She said the idea originally stemmed from chat in the office about a catwalk video to thank those who had donated, using the hit song to walk to.
READ MORE: Lanarkshire family create make-shift McDonald's in back garden to beat lockdown blues
"It was a joke at first," Claire told The Herald. "But my dad is friends with Fred from back in the day, so I asked him if he could message him.
"The band were really up for it, they loved the idea of people helping us out with protective equipment and they really wanted to help us thank them.
"It’s really exciting; we’re such a small community and health board that to have such a big name help us out is just incredible."
________________________________________________________________
News from trusted and credible sources is essential at all times, but especially now as the coronavirus pandemic impacts on all aspects of our lives. To make sure you stay informed during this difficult time our coverage of the crisis is free.
However, producing The Herald's unrivalled analysis, insight and opinion on a daily basis still costs money and, as our traditional revenue streams collapse, we need your support to sustain our quality journalism.
To help us get through this, we’re asking readers to take a digital subscription to The Herald. You can sign up now for just £2 for two months.
If you choose to sign up, we’ll offer a faster loading, advert-light experience – and deliver a digital version of the print product to your device every day.
Thank you, and stay safe.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here