The rise in COVID-19 cases around the Philippines has prompted the SM Group, a Philippine conglomerate investing in shopping malls, retail, real estate, and tourism, to allocate one hundred million pesos to support medical efforts in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), the Research Institute For Tropical Medicine (RITM), and other hospitals owned by the state.
A tweet by the Business Features Editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tina Arceo Dumlao, revealed the SM Group provided personal protective equipment. This included face masks, gowns, visors, hoods, gloves, shoe covers, and other urgent medical supplies.
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SM Group allocates P100M towardsCOVID-19 outbreak support to PGH, RITM, etc. “SM is bringing in personal protective equipment- face masks, gowns, visors, hoods, gloves, shoe covers, urgent medical supplies to help government hospitals who badly need them,” said SM Prime’s Hans Sy
— Tina Arceo-Dumlao (@tinaarceodumlao) March 16, 2020
The Philippines has struggled to contain the coronavirus outbreak. As of writing, 187 have been diagnosed with the virus and twelve have died.
(Photo source: Twitter – @smsupermalls / @tinaarceodumlao)
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