BRIGADIER General Bernabe Balba, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Eastern Visayas director, thanked the stakeholders and private individuals who donated assorted goods to frontliners amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) crisis.
“With the continuous camaraderie and cooperation of everyone, we can definitely win this battle,” said Balba.
Donations include personal protective equipment (PPE), masks, alcohol, food and non-food items which were distributed to the personnel manning the checkpoints across the region and to the 200 selected families of Basey, Samar and Palo, Leyte under the “Kapwa Ko, Sagot Ko’’ program of PRO-Eastern Visayas.
Among the list of donors were the Offices of the Civil Defense (OCD); Director Eustacio Bacabac of National Intelligence Agency (NICA) -- Eastern Visayas; Dominador Aguirre Jr., president of Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU); Southern Leyte Governor Damian Mercado; Unilever Philippines; Geijjerlyn Monserate of Canche Trading; San Miguel Corporation.
Joram Bacorro, branch manager of Tanduay Tacloban branch; Rio Rapada, territory sales manager of Ginebra San Miguel Corporation; Teofilo Vy of E&B Marketing, Tacloban City; Leyte Cong. Martin Romualdez and Cong. Yedda Romualdez of Tingog Party; Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa; Eugene Tan, president of Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tacloban-Leyte Inc.; Tacloban Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Inc.; Tacloban Filipino Chinese Amity Club; Benedicto Ochea, president of PADPAO- Eastern Visayas; Peter Patrick Yap, CEO of Chicken Essential Phils. Inc.; and Puremeat Marketing.
Meanwhile, police regional headquarters also purchased P888, 000 worth of PPE and other materials for its personnel on March 18 to April 29, 2020.
The items are to be used by the Quick Reaction Teams (QRTs) in quarantine control points and those who will be involved in the contact tracing of suspected patients in the entire region.
The procured materials were also used for the renovation of identified PRO-8 isolation facilities.
“These PPE would be of great help to our personnel who untiringly enforce the law as frontliners, for them to be protected from the exposure of the virus amid this pandemic,” Balba said. (SunStar Philippines)