Aows Dargazali, Director of Operations EMEA Protechnique, has recently established Protechnique in the UK to anticipate Brexit, and has been very busy working with international partners, such as the United Nations, Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) and IOM, as well as currently England’s NHS.  Now an IBBC member Protechnique is an international EPC company in 7 countries, including Iraq, Jordan, S Korea, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus and Australia. Focused on both provision and logistical delivery of quality Healthcare and Water to many of the world’s most urgent emergencies and vulnerable groups and on behalf of Global Multilateral aid agencies and Governments.

Recently Protechnique healthcare were commissioned by the English NHS to provide urgent professional healthcare sanitary cleaning products and PPE equipment ‘’it is in discussions now not yet signed’’ for the COVID emergency. Aows explains that this has two big challenges : ‘the purchase, acquisition and sourcing of scale hygiene products at speed, and the logistical expedition of them from countries like Turkey and East Asia to the UK at a time when flights and transport are hard to come by’. He is very proud of the first shipments of Sanitised fluids on May 12^th to UK ‘mainly our UK operation is involved with Department of Health and Social Care to work on fighting the Covid19 spread in the UK. Protechnique was contracted by DHSC to secure the manufacturing, supply and air logistics for Chlorhexidine gluconate antiseptic and sanitizers for the NHS to cover the shortage of PPE. It is response to a call by Gov to involve capable companies to reduce the effect of the virus in the UK. The shipment would arrives around 12 May 2020 into the NHS main warehouse. We are in discussions now with them for other potential coverage of shortages in the PPE. We have used our global offices to be meet the target and respond actively to the call. The quantity is hundred thousand units and contract extend till August for potential meeting the shortage ‘’

Daniel Park, Director of Asia stated ‘’Luckily Protechnique were able to respond rapidly because we have a S Korean office that was involved in COVID response early on, so access to distribution and knowing how to navigate providers has been significant in response for the UK.

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