Chinese-Canadian volunteers sew scrubs for B.C. health care workers GlobeBC
. They have handed over more than 3,500 caps and 140 headbands to health care workers in less than a month, says the group’s co-ordinator, Li Li.
Ms. Deng works as a health consultant, so the volunteer activity means she often doesn’t go to bed until 1 or 2 a.m.At the end of March, Ms. Li learned from a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital that she and her colleagues were in urgent need of cotton scrub caps. Ms. Li says the nurse was planning to buy some online but the delivery was going to take a month.
The volunteers say the thoughtful designs of the caps and headbands are one of the reasons they are in high demand. They sew ties on the backs of the caps to make them adjustable and add buttons to both sides of the caps and headbands so medical staff can hang mask elastics on the buttons rather than their ears.
Ms. Chen’s daughter-in-law, Wendy Deng, works as a health consultant, so the volunteer activity means she often doesn’t go to bed until 1 or 2 a.m.
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