MUSCAT: Oman based Salalah Medical Supplies Manufacturing Company produces two million gloves and 100,000 face masks daily to meet the needs of the local market in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19).

Ahmed bin Aqeel Al Ibrahim, Executive Director of Salalah Medical Supplies, said in an interview with Oman News Agency that the factory has a daily production capacity of two million medical gloves and 100,000 medical masks

“The company has boosted its production since the emergence of the pandemic, bringing the factory’s production of medical gloves during the last month to 40 million. Our factory products have accredited medical specifications and have approvals and licenses from the relevant government agencies and the company holds comprehensive quality certificates,” he said.

Al Ibrahim explained that the factory was able to supply two million medical masks to government and private health institutions during the month of March, noting that the priority at the present time is to meet the needs of medical institutions.