Procter & Gamble (P&G) Philippines has announced that its manufacturing plant in Cabuyao City will manufacture face masks to help reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
The company said in a statement on Tuesday that the face masks will not be for sale, but will be for donation and for the use of their employees.
“P&G will invest in additional equipment for the plant to manufacture face masks for donation which will be routed through the Department of Health and used to help protect our employees as they work to produce critically important cleaning, health and hygiene products for the nation,” said P&G Philippines President and General Manager Raffy Fajardo.
“Hopefully these marks, along with the thousands of hygiene kits we are donating to several [Covid-19] hospitals and frontliners will play a big part in helping frontliners in the fight against Covid-19,” Fajardo added.
The company’s donation of face masks is on top of its donation of P100 million worth of P&G products to hospitals and frontliners, employee job safety and security assistance and aid it has extended to its business partners.
Through this investment, P&G said it aims to address the growing need for face masks given the Inter-Agency Task Force’s (IATF) announcement requiring citizens to wear face masks upon leaving their homes.
The IATF requirement seeks to minimize the transmission of Covid-19, which has already infected more than 3,000 Filipinos, according to data from the DOH. The government placed the entire island of Luzon under enhanced community quarantine to stop the spread of the infectious disease.
“P&G will collaborate closely with the DOH and the Department of Trade and Industry and the Board of Investments to help hospitals and communities nationwide where there is an unprecedented need for protective supplies,” the company said.
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