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Is you so wound up? – surprised journalists.

No, the specifics of the enterprise. We are creating jobs for people with disabilities. Of the 70 people, more than half have hearing and speech – explains the acting Director of the sewing workshop Ivan Vasin.

Before the pandemic here manufactured clothing, mostly for the food industry and restaurants. But in March began to receive unusual orders from local hospitals. They asked for protective clothes for doctors working with infected patients.

Technology together with doctors developed model and chosen fabric, which must meet the seemingly impossible demands: to be an impenetrable barrier to external influence and at the same time comfortable for at least eight consecutive hours.

Disposable overalls somehow caused the doctors insecurity, and the administration of hospitals – silent horror: this is how much money you have to send to the scrap! Required clothing that will withstand disinfection by gimnastrada and high temperatures in autoclaves.

the Technicians had to raise the Soviet guests. Tissue samples procured in the capital. The first experimental model tried to imagine doctors at the local clinic, one of the first who began to receive patients COVID-19.

In the end, caught on two models – the jumpsuit with zipper for resuscitation and anti-plague kit, which includes pants, coat at back ties, apron, Shoe covers and scarf. Pockets are not entitled. The sleeves on the elastic band that fits snugly gloves. The costume completely covers the body from head to toe, even the hair does not have contact with the air, demonstrate it for yourself technologist Anna Lataeva.

the Fabric is absolutely not water tight, and while there is almost no sweat. The composition for commercial purposes is not disclosed, but 35 percent of it consists of cotton. This suit can withstand at least 15 cycles of use, and the price is slightly more expensive than disposable.

Over a month the shop has already made more than 5000 costumes for physicians. They are so in demand that do not have time to get to the warehouse. Couriers arrive for them from all parts of the Penza region. There were demands from other regions, but the shop barely has time to put on Penza doctors and nurses.

the Most difficult was to obtain the registration certificate on medizdeliya. Previously, this required at least six months now the procedure is accelerated, in consideration of the application is given five working days. But in order to prepare all the documents necessary to carry out tests and send the prototype for examination in accredited laboratory. Their country is not so much the queue at each scheduled a month in advance. From Penza deaf masters the entire process took three weeks and almost a million rubles.

the shop�� also sew a protective mask, but not for sale, and for hospitals. Seamstresses sit in these, changing them every two hours. At the end of the day to wash and iron.

to Expand production is not planned. This requires larger premises. According to the security requirements of the sewing machines had to put in two meters from each other.

the Ulyanovsk company “Testgen” began to produce systems for identifying real-time COVID-19. They allow to determine the presence of coronavirus in a sample taken from the mucous membrane, naso – or oropharynx, with an accuracy of more than 96 percent in the early stages of infection.May 20, the company received European certificate of conformity for its own set of reagents, and earlier registration certificate of Roszdravnadzor. The first 5,000 diagnostic kits Ulyanovsk firm gave to the needs of the region. As much again will go to the field hospitals in June.

the Production capacity of the company allow to produce up to 50 thousand tests a day, and in the future – up to two million per month. This is significant given the fact that two months in the whole of Russia, according to Rospotrebnadzor, was made about seven million tests.

Prepared by Alexei Yukhtanov, Ulyanovsk