 Okay, so from closing headquarters to wearing big green suits. What's this all about? This is all about personal protective equipment. For example, when there's an Ebola outbreak, this will be the new PPE for future outbreaks. The PPE that is used right now has several disadvantages. We saw it there briefly in the video. This is what was used during the previous Ebola outbreak a couple of years ago. Exactly. So this suit has several disadvantages. In fact, it is so it's impermeable to avoid that any infectious fluids will enter the suit, but it also means that nothing can go out of the suit. So it's getting extremely hot inside, especially if you work in countries like in Africa. So it is very hot. So for the people using it, wearing it, it is very exhausting and you can stay maximum one hour inside. It means that you have to do several shifts per day. So how is this suit different then? Because it looks pretty impermeable as well to the naked eye. I don't see the difference between the existing. Yeah, so I will come to that. So first with the disadvantages, so it is very hot inside. When you have to dress and undress, you have several layers to put and you have to do it very concentrated because if you leave one part of the skin open, it's dangerous. You can infect yourself and when you undress you are exhausted because you have been in the in the hot suit for a long time and then you have to take layer by layer off and this also can be a potential dangerous moment. If you don't do it correctly, you can also infect yourself. So that's the second disadvantage. Then the third disadvantage is the vision for the patient. So the vision is quite limited so the patient cannot see who is inside. So I noticed that many doctors and medics in the field wrote their names actually on the top of there but this is not necessary now because you can see the person. Exactly. So during the last epidemic, the West African epidemic, so a partnership was created between MSF, the Lausanne Polytechnic University and the University of Geneva, among which the University Hospital of Geneva and industrial partners to tackle all these disadvantages of the actual PPE and so this is then the smart PPE. Why is it smart? Is it called electronics inside? It doesn't have electronics inside but it's because it's nicer to use for the caretaker, the caregiver and for the patient and it has tackled in fact all the disadvantages of the former suit. So as you can see it is in one piece. The vision is much better for the person wearing it and also for the patient you can see the face and also a disadvantage of the former one was that you have to throw it away part of the PPE and this one is completely reusable and as you can see it is in one piece so if you take it on it's very quickly, very safe and if you take it off you take it off like this and it's also much safer to take it off. How do you avoid the cooked chicken syndrome? The cooked chicken syndrome there will be a ventilation system. So there are some electronics inside it? Yes yes so it is a smart PPE so there's a ventilation system so the person using it will not feel hot and I can stay much longer inside so it means more comfort, less exhaustion and longer work shifts and for the patient he can see the person so the ventilation there will be two phases in this project the first one is that the ventilation will be inside the suit but not yet integrated so the ventilation will work through all of the body and here in the phase and the second phase then it will be integrated in the suit. Okay and so where are you have you tried this in the field yet have you put this on in the hot african heat? Not yet not yet we are not yet not yet there so this one for the first phase it will also pass all the qualitative tests that is needed we'll be ready during this year and the second phase suit will take one or two more years. Are you looking for test rabbits to test it? Because I've got one here. Hi Esther this looks amazing and I know from colleagues who went to Ebola a couple of years ago that it was actually quite terrifying taking on and off the suit as well as very frustrating that you could only stay sort of with the patients for half an hour. Aside from Ebola where else might this be used? It can be it can be used for all contagious diseases so it not only for Ebola so it can be it will be industry-alized so it can be widely used also in yeah in in settings in non-Ebola settings yeah. Are you gonna get somebody to dress up in it today we've got some logisticians you can we'll come back at lunchtime and film you again with with somebody inside they're walking around because we don't really believe you when it's just a mannequin like that we want to see somebody inside there for many hours. And why the choice blue I'm interested the color blue is that significance or you're not sure? Well it's about the most important thing is that if there if the suit will be contaminated with for example blood that it's visible so it needs to be visible that's why this color was chosen. Okay fantastic well there's an Ebola emergency going on at the moment in Congo and so it's not ready yet but let's hope that what's your time span next year you're going to be up and running you think? Yes yes we hope so that by the end of this year this year this first phase suit will be ready will be tested and qualified and and working. Rock and roll. Can I just ask when you say it's reusable how does that work is it sort of have to be sort of dumped in chlorine what do you need to do? Yes you need to disinfect it like the current PPE. So sprayed or yeah so the current PPE many parts you have to throw away are not reusable and parts are reusable and you can disinfect it with chlorine so this one you can just put in a chlorine solution and then it'll be disinfected and when it's dry it can be reused. Great thanks very much good luck finishing off there's a lot of medics that are very very happy.