Hungarians and Americans collected protective equipment for doctors and nurses in the New York Hot Zone – photos!

Hungarians and Americans collected protective kits for a New York hospital where, among others, the wife of Krisztián Köves, a Hungarian film director, works. He reported about what had happened on his Facebook page. Details of the touching story below.

We wrote HERE about Linda, a Hungarian doctor working in the Hot Zone of New York and saving lives there every day, and about her husband, Krisztián Köves, who tries to help her as best as he can. Now, they have started to collect protective kits for the crew of the Jacobi Medical Centre, and they have been very successful in that project, about which Krisztián wrote on his Facebook page. 

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For example, thanks to Dr Tamás Szabó, an anesthesiologist from the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Centre in South Carolina, they received 480 N95 masks and 10 face shields. Tamás said that

Jenny Thompson, the world’s most successful female swimming champion,

having won 8 Olympic gold medals, helped him in collecting the protective equipment.

Jenny Thompson collected the masks with the help of her GO Jenny GO organisation and through a community financing page (Go Fund Me). Fortunately, she is constantly collecting donations for doctors and nurses fighting on the frontline.

One day later, a pack of protective work goggles arrived thanks to Dorottya Mathe, a Hungarian film producer, who collects such equipment from her friends like Karyn Libretto who sent the goggles and who lives and works in Windham Mountain, Catskills, New York. Then,