Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton has donated protective equipment to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, including N95 masks, surgical masks and other gear.
The veterinary school said Monday it has given several thousand pieces of personal protective equipment to UMass Memorial from its various clinics and labs, which also include coats, overalls, head coverings and food coverings, all of which are disposable.
Cummings has donated to other area facilities since mid-March, including thermometers to healthcare sites in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut, four ventilators to Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and cloth face masks made by school employees and friends being sent to local healthcare workers.
Cummings’ farm is donating 30 dozen eggs each week to the Grafton Food Pantry and other food pantries in the area to help increase food security at a time when many may be forced out of work or less able to make it to a grocery store.
The school’s veterinary services remain open, though, for emergency and emergent patient cases only with protocols in place to limit person-to-person contact, Cummings said in a statement.
Cummings researchers are involved in multiple research projects related to the study of coronavirus, including preparing the Tufts New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory on the Grafton campus for critical studies by researchers at Tufts and elsewhere.
