Concerned about the need for face protection for health and frontline workers struggling to combat the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak especially in Pahang state, UMP Holdings Sdn. Bhd. (UMPH), which is a subsidiary of Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), lent a helping hand by providing 1,000 face shields at its office building on April 13, 2020.

The spirit of assisting the frontliners and the scarce of personal protective equipment (PPE) have inspired three lecturers from Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) to produce face shields to help the frontliners battling the Covid-19 outbreak.

They are Dr. Zamzuri Hamedon, Dr. Ismayuzri Ishak, and Khairul Fikri Muhammad from the Faculty of Manufacturing and Mechatronics Engineering (FTKPM) shared the idea of producing the face shields in two days.

After a month when Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) contributed medical gloves for medical personnel at Hebei University China (HBU) during the Covid-19 outbreak, UMP received face masks and jumpsuits as one of personal protective equipment (PPE) from HBU for the frontliners on 7 April 2020.

A total of 1,000 face masks and 100 sets of jumpsuits arrived at UMP Health Centre in Gambang and the next aid will be arriving soon in stages.