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Together, the two companies have announced that they have adapted an existing cosmetic production line to produce additional disinfectant wipes – 50,000 units of which will be donated to NHS staff.

Dr Guy Braverman, co-founder of GAMA Healthcare, said: “We have been working tirelessly since the outbreak of the virus in China to play our part in the global fight against the disease.

"We’ve strengthened our supply chain to ensure our products continue to get to key frontline services; we have ramped up production of our products, working closely with our partners in China to increase supply through our current manufacturing base and we have ensured that our expertise at all levels of the company is readily available for the NHS to utilise at no cost to the exchequer.

“We have partnered with Rockline Europe to repurpose a production line for our Clinell Universal Wipes at their state-of-the art factory in Worcestershire to get supplies of our products to where they’re needed even quicker. We are announcing today that as part of this partnership we will be jointly donating 50,000 units of disinfectant wet wipes directly to NHS frontline staff. The NHS is playing a vital role in the nation’s fight against the virus and we are very happy to play a small part in supporting their dedicated staff.”

With no vaccine yet developed for use against the disease, hospitals are having to concentrate their efforts on infection prevention products to stop the spread of the virus at source.

GAMA, which supplies its products to over sixty countries across the globe, has been working around-the-clock to meet unprecedented demand for their products to help ensure that they are still readily available for frontline services.

With the epicentre of the epidemic now in Western Europe, GAMA are working with Rockline Europe, a world leading company in hygienic solutions, to repurpose a production line at Rockline’s state-of-the-art factory in Redditch, Worcestershire.

The repurposed line will be used to produce GAMA’s ‘Clinell Universal Wipes’ which are used by frontline staff in hospitals across Europe.

As well as the new partnership between the two companies to produce GAMA’s wipes for hospitals, the companies are also working together to deliver 50,000 units of wipes to NHS staff free of charge.

With each company donating 25,000 units each, the wipes will be for use by NHS staff when they are not at work, to ensure they can continue to maintain a good level of protection against the virus when not in an occupational setting – helping to keep more frontline staff fit, well and healthy at this critical time for the UK health service.

Simon Ellis, VP of European Contract Manufacturing Services at Rockline said “We are delighted to be working in partnership with GAMA Healthcare to repurpose one of our production lines at our factory in Redditch to help GAMA meet the new demands for their products at this critical time for the NHS.

“We are diverting as much capacity, resource and materials as we can away from our cosmetic wipe production and onto manufacturing disinfectant products for the NHS frontline.

“This has been a very challenging time for staff working in the NHS, to show our gratitude for all their hard work, and to do our bit to help keep them safe, we have partnered with GAMA in a new scheme to donate 50,000 wet wipes directly to NHS staff – all of which will be manufactured in our factory in Worcestershire.”