{"id":2415,"date":"2020-05-05T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:05:44","slug":"chinese-professors-work-together-to-buy-ppe-for-uk-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/05\/05\/chinese-professors-work-together-to-buy-ppe-for-uk-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Professors work together to buy PPE for UK hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/sl626\/\">Professor Shujun Li<\/a>\u00a0has been working with the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcp.org.uk\/\">Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP)<\/a> to raise funds to support the NHS in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The money raised has been used to buy personal protection equipment (PPE) for ten UK hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a\u00a0Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Kent,\u00a0Shujun is also the Vice President for\u00a0Internal Communication and Public Relations of ABCP. \u00a0With the joint effort of its members and associated members across the UK, the following has been achieved so far:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>1000 FFP2 face masks, donated to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London<\/li>\n<li>1000 FFP2 face masks, donated to UCL Hospital London<\/li>\n<li>400 FFP2 face masks, donated to St Mary Hospital, Imperial College London<\/li>\n<li>3500 safety goggles and 7000 full face visors donated to seven hospitals in London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Coventry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shujun commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been lucky to be able to play my part in such a great project\u00a0organised by the ABCP. It\u00a0made me feel more useful society&#8217;s fight against Covid-19,\u00a0while staying day and night at home. I have been deeply moved by many British\u00a0Chinese who have kindly provided their help in many different ways,\u00a0e.g., donating money, providing information about potential PPE vendors\u00a0in China, liaising with NHS hospitals and other organisations in need of\u00a0PPE, liaising with Chinese donors to arrange purchase, validation and\u00a0transportation of PPE, and helping forwarding information and PPE to NHS\u00a0staff and other essential workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;My role in the team has been internal communications and public\u00a0relations, including maintaining a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcp.org.uk\/abcp-campaign-against-covid-19\">dedicated web portal for the project<\/a>\u00a0and helping verify donations from ABCP members and the general public.\u00a0Together with a number of other Chinese academics working at the\u00a0University of Kent, we also helped receive hundreds of PPE items from\u00a0China and re-distributed them to local people in need, some working at\u00a0NHS hospitals or medical clinics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to find out how to help, please see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcp.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/abcp.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Shujun Li\u00a0has been working with the Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP) to raise funds to support the NHS in its response to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/05\/05\/chinese-professors-work-together-to-buy-ppe-for-uk-hospitals\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,122],"tags":[5349,37339,178021,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}