SM Foundation recently began distributing over P170 million worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies to over 50 hospitals nationwide to be of service in the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019.
These include ICU-grade ventilators; test kits including the local Manila Healthtek kits developed by the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health, and PCR kits approved by the Food and Drug Administration from South Korea; and personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.
The Philippine General Hospital, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the Lung Center of the Philippines were among the recipients. Photo shows Medical City Manila medical frontliners in their new PPE outfits.