Chinese charity sends 10,000 masks to the customers over 80 if they order food to an Asian food delivery service
- Chinese Wealth Charity Foundation is giving 10,000 face masks to the elderly
- That's if they order Asian food through the EASI home delivery service firm
- EASI said it had offered personal protective equipment to a Melbourne hospital
- Doctors in March and April were particularly concerned about a lack of PPE
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A Chinese community charity is sending 10,000 face masks to the elderly in a bid to promote an Asian food delivery service.
The Chinese Wealth Charity Foundation and EASI have announced they will be giving the masks to any customer who is aged 80 or over after a spate of coronavirus deaths in Sydney nursing homes.
The registered charity, founded late last year under the Beaver Foundation company name, is supplying protective equipment to EASI food home delivery customers - as Australian doctors worry about sourcing enough masks, gowns and visors.
A Chinese community charity is sending 10,000 face masks to the elderly in a bid to promote an Asian food delivery service. Pictured is a man in Sydney wearing a face mask
Director Leon Lu announced on Friday it would be supplying 10,000 Therapeutic Goods Administration-approved face masks to elderly customers who ordered Asian home delivered food through EASI.
The announcement was made through Kitty Lu, EASI's national accounts manager, who is no relation to Leon Lu.
'Many children of older Australians are organising food delivery to their parent's homes, be that fresh food or take away,' Kitty Lu said.
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'If they can't check in on them, they want to make sure that they are at least eating well, but they're also concerned about protecting them if they go out for exercise or to the shop for milk.
'That's why EASI is teaming up with CWFC to give away over 10,000 TGA approved face masks nationally to any customer over 80 years of age.'
A spokesman for EASI said it had offered face masks to the Austin Hospital in Melbourne's north.
The registered charity, founded late last year under the Beaver Foundation company name, is supplying protective equipment to EASI food home delivery customers as Australian doctors worry about sourcing enough masks, gowns and visors.
'EASI has previously offered the masks for free to the Austin Hospital and is now offering these masks to those over 80 who are amongst the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 restrictions,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Friday.
'EASI is happy to provide its modest supply of masks to any hospital or medical group that may need them and encourage them to contact us.'
Early last month, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton banned the export of masks, hand sanitiser, gloves, gowns, goggles and visors, after Chinese businesses were caught air freighting them from Australia to China.
Customs can now seize the goods and add them to the national stockpile for healthcare workers to use, as long as they are not defective.
Trade publication Australian Doctor News had described the lack of PPE as a scandal, as medicos in March and April used garbage bags to make makeshift gowns.
The Australian Charities and Not-For profits Commission lists the Sydney-registered Chinese Wealth Charity Foundation, established in 2019, as an organisation that helps those aged 65 and over, the homeless and 'people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background'.
