Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) recently made a P500,000 donation to health workers and first responders of Metro Manila’s lone municipality, Pateros, through Save the Children Philippines (SCP).
The donation provides health and hygiene essentials and equipment such as oxygen tanks and regulators, nasal cannulas, thermometers, pulse oximeters, masks, goggles and will also support the COVID-19 room improvements, the maintenance of the municipal’s water and sanitation facility.
Standard Chartered also donated holiday gift packs for 250 municipal health workers and staff.
The turnover activity was held in Pateros Municipal Hall attended by Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III; Standard Chartered Bank Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing Head Mai Sangalang; Save the Children Corporate Partnerships Manager Natalia Tabal; and representatives from the bank, SCP, Municipal Health Office, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (MDRRMO) and barangay emergency response team.