Scotland’s Contribution to the Fight Against COVID-19

That the Parliament recognises the work of Scotland’s academic entrepreneurial community in the global movement of innovators looking for ways to halt the spread of the contagion, COVID-19, and eradicate it; commends the University of Edinburgh start-up, Augment Bionics, which creates 3D-printed prosthetic limbs, for responding to the call by the NHS for more personalised protective equipment by repurposing its technology to make 3D-printed protective face masks and providing these to the NHS free of charge; applauds Current Health, which began as a University of Dundee-start-up and is now busier than ever providing its wearable patient monitoring device to help detect any symptoms on patients at risk from COVID-19, helping medical staff with patient management strategies so that they can be monitored and treated outside hospital or as part of an early discharge programme for non-COVID-19 patients to free up hospital beds; understands that this is an unparalleled global call to arms that the science and technology community in Scotland is lending its full weight to; notes that this is a significant challenge, and believes that Scottish innovation will be an important part of the global movement to find solutions and mitigate the impact of the pandemic.