Arise Hotels & Apartments donates 5,000 PPE masks to hospitals

Arise Hotels & Apartments donates 5,000 PPE masks to hospitals

At least 5,000 protective face masks have been delivered to two of South East Queensland’s busiest hospitals, courtesy of Arise Hotels & Apartments.

The donation comes off the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the intense demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) required by frontline healthcare workers.

This saw 2,500 high-quality N95 masks each delivered to Gold Coast University Hospital and Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Michael Song, CEO of Arise Hotels & Apartments, said the masks had initially been ordered for essential employees across his company’s portfolio of 15 hotels and apartment sites.

“The donation … to Queensland’s healthcare workers is one small way Arise Hotels & Apartments would like to help our community and in particular, provide some added assurance to our frontline health workers that as a community, we are doing everything we can to support them,” he said.

“We initially ordered a large amount of PPE to protect guests and staff in preparation for our properties to be used as isolation sites as and when required.

“And while some of our sites are already acting as ‘isolation’ homes for healthcare workers, assisting them to limit contact with their own immediate families by providing a safe place for them to reside, we have been able to retain a suitable quantity [of PPE] to orchestrate that while donating the remaining supply to Gold Coast University Hospital and Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital for their immediate needs.”

Song said the donation was a small gesture “in the scheme of things”, but hoped it could contribute in some way to taking the pressure off of frontline workers.

A spokesperson from the Princess Alexandra Hospital said the donation was gratefully received.

“Masks have proven to be one of our most valuable resources in the healthcare environment at the current time,” the spokesperson said.

“We offer a heartfelt thanks to Arise Hotels and a round of virtual high-fives for this special donation, which will help us advance some of those clinical services which have been postponed due to COVID-19.”

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