‘Made in Guernsey’ shock for surgical theatre staff

Friday 3rd September 2010, 2:30PM BST.

Intersurgical’s Aiden Kennedy, left, shows Sue Holdway, Owen Griffiths, Avril Milne, Martin Spayne and Dorothy Leing how the equipment they use daily in operating theatres is made at Pitronnerie Road. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1015720)

OPERATING theatre staff from the Princess Elizabeth Hospital have been given a behind-the-scenes look at how equipment they use daily is produced.

Intersurgical, the Pitronnerie Road Industrial Estate-based manufacturer of medical respiratory products, invited the hospital employees for a tour of the facilities in order to give them a better idea of how devices such as filtration products, anaesthetic face masks and patient connections are put together.

But it was also to demonstrate that a lot of what they used on a regular basis was made locally.

‘I didn’t know until this visit was mentioned that what we use is made here in Guernsey,’ said Owen Griffiths.