“Walang iwanan!”
San Miguel
Corporation (SMC) continues to set the gold standard with respect to being the
big corporation with a golden heart as it would donate swabbing booths and test
kits to local government units (LGU’s) in Metro Manila to further expand
COVID-19 testing at the barangay level.
SMC announced that
they have partnered with all 17 local government units (LGU’s) in the national
capital region (NCR) to set up more testing booths in areas with a high density
of COVID-19 cases, while also providing the Reverse Transcription Polymerase
Chain Reaction or RT-PCR tests.
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| (photo credit to SMC) |
SMC President and
Chief Operating Officer (COO)Ramon Ang said the donation will complement the
national government’s desire to expand COVID-19 testing, which is now more
focused on the major commercial areas and for the mass testing of returning
overseas Filipino workers (OFW).
“Our aim is to help
flatten the curve in our less fortunate barangays, especially in areas where
there have been outbreaks,” Ang said in a statement on Tuesday. "Our
less-fortunate countrymen are really vulnerable, because their living
conditions make it harder to observe social distancing and other preventive
measures. So we want to focus our efforts on helping them."
SMC also will donate RT-PCR machines, to help significantly
increase the number of tests that can be processed daily.
"We need to produce more test
kits, and make testing affordable, if not free, to the hardest-hit
communities," Ang said. "We also need enough equipment to be able to
process all these tests. We have to mobilize all these components to be able to
test at scale."
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