GLASGOW TRAVEL RETAILER DONATES 5,000 (£125K) COMPRESSION SOCKS TO HELP FRONTLINE SCOTS NURSES

A Glasgow online travel retailer whose sales have dropped 95 per cent in the past
two weeks has donated 5,000 pairs of compression socks to help Scots nurses
combat Covid-19.

Worth £125,000, the colourful knee-length socks will help 5,000 acute nurses in six
hospitals across Scotland fight fatigue in the coming weeks.

And the firm has pledged to give away 5,000 more in the next seven days to nurses
in London, bringing the total to 10,000 (£250,000).

Trtl (pronounced ‘turtle’) has donated the compression socks to acute nurses at
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Royal Alexandra Hospital (Paisley) and Queen
Elizabeth University Hospital in Govan. Each hospital has received 1,000.

In addition, nurses at The Royal Edinburgh Hospital will take 1,000 while Trtl has
given 500 to nurses at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital and 500 to Aberdeen Royal
Infirmary.

The award-winning company, which employs 30 people in Glasgow, had stockpiled
thousands of the socks in advance of its peak summer season.

But with sales stalling due to the Covid-19 pandemic and little prospect of travel bans
being rescinded any time soon, CEO Michael Corrigan decided to use them to
support frontline nurses in his home city, across Scotland and in worst-hit London
instead.