Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) recently turned over medical supplies to Pasig City through its “Bayanihan Musikahan” for COVID relief aid.
Over 1,000 reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) sets and more than 27,000 pieces of nitrile gloves were given out for the city’s frontline health workers at the Pasig City General Hospital, Rizal Medical Center, Tricity Medical Center and Pasig City Health Department for the city’s quarantine facilities.
The sets include washable coveralls, foot covers and face shields to help protect their medical staff from risk of COVID infection.
The Bank’s relief efforts include distribution of food packs to 10,000 households in NCR and Region IV-A and more than 11,000 PPE kits to hospitals and treatment centres in Luzon and Cebu City.
At the turnover event were Mayor Vico Sotto (center), SCB head of corporate affairs, Mai Sangalang (2nd from left), PBSP program officer Mareon Villegas, and bank officers Jazmine Garcia and Rainier Cruz.