Mundelein Healthcare Supplier Sees Uptick In Sales Of Ebola Protective Gear
(CBS) -- Concerns over Ebola has one local company seeing an uptick in business as hospitals look for protective gear.
CBS 2's Marissa Bailey reports inside thousands of boxes at the Medline distribution center in Mundelein are the makings of a CDC approved Ebola outfit for doctors and nurses who may have to treat Ebola patients.
Customer calls for full body protective gear went from about 10 a day to now more than 150.
Martie Moore, chief nursing officer for Medline, makes sure health care providers suit up properly to avoid infection.
"It's stopping and thinking about how you put that gown on and how do you take it off?," Moore said. "Taking it from inside going out and taking off your gloves and taking off your headgear in that very prescriptive way."
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently showed how easy it would be to get Ebola contamination somewhere on your skin, using similar gowns and chocolate sauce, but Medline professionals say the hope is that healthcare providers follow the CDC protocols, keeping an Ebola outbreak to a minimum.
"Emergency preparedness is one of the key things hospitals practice and now it's time to put that practice into motion," said Moore.
The masks are made in conjunction with CDC guidelines and according to the CDC Ebola is only transmitted through fluids and it's not airborne.