Fri | 04.24.2020 | 7:00 PM

A medical social worker from Tondo Medical Center displays the face masks that PAGCOR donated to the hospital.

A healthcare worker from Rizal Medical Center expresses his gratitude to PAGCOR after receiving assorted medical protective gears from the agency.

PAGCOR VP for Corporate Social Responsibility Group Jimmy Bondoc poses with a medical worker from Philippine Heart Center after the agency turned over various personal protective equipment to the hospital.

A representative from Lung Center of the Philippines (right) personally receives from a PAGCOR volunteer the agency’s personal protective equipment donations.

Dr. Anthony Perez (right) and Dr. Melfred Hernandez (left), Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, of UP-PGH Bayanihan Na! COVID-19 Operations Center are joined in a photo opportunity by PAGCOR VP for Corporate Social Responsibility Group Jimmy Bondoc following the agency’s turnover of various medical protective gears to the hospital.

A resident of a community in San Pablo City, Laguna receives a food pack from a PAGCOR volunteer during the agency’s relief-giving operation.

PAGCOR volunteers unload relief goods for distribution to the residents of San Pablo City affected by the enhanced community quarantine restrictions implemented by the government.

IN its effort to help thwart the high incidence of novel coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) infections among healthcare workers due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPEs), the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) distributed more essential gears to several public hospitals this week.

PAGCOR turned over this week 85,000 face masks to Rizal Medical Center, Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center, Tondo Medical Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, Philippine Heart Center and Philippine General Hospital. The agency also distributed N95 masks, face shields and protective clothing to the said hospitals. The PPEs were donated by various Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs).

Earlier, the state-run gaming firm also delivered over 47,000 POGO-donated food packs to communities in the National Capital Region (NCR), Benguet, Bulacan, Pampanga and Tarlac which direly need assistance due to the economic impact of the pandemic.

According to PAGCOR Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility Group Jimmy Bondoc, the agency is committed to deliver protective medical gears to more public hospitals in the coming days as they continue to receive requests for such.

“We have already reached out to many public hospitals during the past weeks, and we look forward to extending vital help to more healthcare institutions as we continue find our way out of this health crisis,” Bondoc said.

Meanwhile, the state-run gaming firm also delivered over 2,000 relief packs to the residents of the cities of San Pedro and San Pablo in Laguna, who were among those affected by enhanced community quarantine restrictions implemented by the government.

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