The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Bialystok University of Technology (PB) responded to the appeal of Podlasie hospitals and began the production of medical helmets. In addition to masks and gloves, the helmets are currently the basic protective equipment for doctors, nurses and paramedics who are on the front line of the combat against coronavirus.

-Staff of the Hospital of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Bialystok and the Provincial Hospital in Łomża asked for our help including making protective helmets using 3D printing – says Dr Eng. Szczepan Piszczatowski, director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. Piszczatowski together with other scholars decided to respond to the appeal and use devices from the department’s equipment for the production of protective helmets.

PB’s production capacity was defined as 100 helmets per day, provided securing materials and money for their purchase. The university has enough raw material for producing 450 helmets.