Through SM Foundation, SM is donating over PhP 170 million towards the fight against COVID-19, surpassing its initial allocation of PhP 100 million, to help ensure:
- Healthcare workers in hospitals nationwide are armored with personal protective equipment (PPEs) – full protective suits (including for ICU use), face shields, gloves, N95 masks, surgical masks, goggles, and including raincoats as requested by some hospitals as back-up alternatives
- Testing is made more widely available, by supporting and donating the local Manila Healthtek test kits developed by the UP-NIH team (upon DOH approval), providing the testing needs of RITM, and donating FDA-approved PCR kits sourced from Korea.
- Providing ICU-grade ventilators to help hospitals manage patients with severe cases.
SM DISTRIBUTES PPE, MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO OVER 50 HOSPITALS SM Foundation distributes over P170 million worth of protecive personal equipment and medical supplies to over 50 hospitals nationwide to be of service in the fight against Covid-19. These include ICU-grade ventilators; test kits including the local Manila Healthtek kits developed by the University of the Philippines- National Institute of Health team, and Food and Drug Administration-approved polymerase chain reaction or PCR kits from South Korea; and PPE for healthcare workers. The Philippine General Hospital, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Lung Center of the Philippines were among the recipients. Photo shows Medical City Manila medical frontliners in their new PPE outfits.
Among the hospitals that received PPE donations as of March 27, 2020 are the following designated COVID hospitals:
- o University of the Philippines PGH
- o Lung Center of the Philippines
- o Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital
Major Government Hospitals:
- o Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM)
- o National Kidney and Transplant Institute
- o San Lazaro Hospital
- o East Avenue Medical Center
- o Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center
- o Philippine Heart Center
- o National Children’s Hospital
- o Rizal Medical Center
Other hospitals include, Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, Chinese General Hospital, University of the East Ramon Magsaysay (UERM) Memorial Medical Center, Manila Doctors Hospital, University of Sto. Tomas Hospital, Makati Medical Center, The Medical City, Ospital mg Muntinlupa, and more.
Delivered Medical Supplies and Ventilators to PGH received by Director GAP Legaspi of UP PGH
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