{"id":5785,"date":"2020-04-02T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2020-04-02T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T07:22:18","slug":"locals-to-fill-the-medical-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/locals-to-fill-the-medical-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCALS TO FILL THE MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is calling on manufacturers around the State to help fill gaps in the global supply of medical equipment and hygiene products, redeploying spare capacity to save lives and jobs.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres today launched a portal for companies to offer to build parts or supply eight urgently needed items during the COVID-19 crisis.<br \/>\nMs Berejiklian said the world was running short on hand sanitiser, handwash soap, gloves, cleaning products, protective clothing, masks, eyewear and paper products.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a call to arms for NSW manufacturers to look at ways to convert production lines into making the items we so desperately need,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have the ability within NSW to meet our local demand and the Government is moving to help manufacturers re-tool quickly to achieve this.<br \/>\n\u201cImportantly, providing this opportunity to manufacturers will also allow some businesses to keep people in jobs when they may not have been able to do so.\u201d<br \/>\nLocal alcohol makers are already converting to produce items such as hand sanitiser, while other firms have switched to face masks, providing much-needed equipment while keeping their business going and safeguarding jobs.<br \/>\nWith supply of Personal Protective Equipment and disinfectant expected to be constrained for at least 12 months, further opportunities exist for other NSW companies to join them.<br \/>\nMr Ayres said the Government will use information provided through the portal to connect the supply chain so more finished products can be provided where needed.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is an opportunity for businesses to not only diversify their supply but produce incredibly important products for our State in a time of need,\u201d Mr Ayres said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will work to find solutions to provide our hospitals and our people with the protection they need, while keeping as many workers as possible in a job,\u201d Mr Ayres said.<br \/>\nBusinesses can register their interest through the portal at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tenders.nsw.gov.au\/?event=public.scheme.show&amp;RFTUUID=DE449E37-03D9-9555-E68A9DE1EBD8689A%20\">nsw.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is calling on manufacturers around the State to help fill gaps in the global supply of medical equipment and hygiene products, redeploying spare capacity to save lives and jobs. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres today launched a portal for companies to offer to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/locals-to-fill-the-medical-supply-chain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOCALS TO FILL THE MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}