Plasters and skin colour - are they inclusive?

A group of Cavan students are aiming to make plasters more racially inclusive using a project they exhibited.

‘Mismatched Medics: An analysis of the inadequacy of skin-color-matching plasters in promoting inclusiveness’ was created by a group of Virginia teenagers, Charlie Brady, Ciaran Conlon and Eve Brennan who conducted surveys to find out how the public felt about the issue. “Our project is on plaster inclusivity, we were just trying to figure out how people felt about the lack of dark plaster colours being available,” said Charlie.

Pointing at the graphs highlighted in their booth, Ciaran continued: “What we did find is that the darker people are, the more they care about the colour of the plasters and we think that’s because there are no plasters in that colour available in shops.” The group revealed their project was inspired by their friends who explained the issue to them previously.