Business leader Manuel V. Pangilinan and companies under his leadership, PLDT and Meralco, recently turned over P45-million worth of hospital equipment to East Avenue Medical Center for its new COVID facility.
The donation will aid East Avenue Medical Center as it increases its bed capacity to accommodate additional COVID patients.
The hospital has allocated 60 beds for the emergency room, wards and intensive care unit (ICU).
These include hospital bed with mattresses, overhead and bedside tables, foot stool, IV stands, curtains, comforters and draw sheets.
Monitors, ventilators and gadgets needed to attend to serious and critical patients were also part of the hospital equipment donation.
"We continue to support government efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and hope that our assistance to the East Avenue Medical Center will help provide quality care for patients,” remarked PLDT Chairman and CEO Manuel V Pangilinan.
“We are using our resources to address the immediate need for hospital equipment in this new COVID-19 facility. This is essential to accommodate more patients, especially during the current health crisis,” added Meralco President and CEO Atty. Ray C. Espinosa.
The East Avenue Medical Center is a general hospital under the Department of Health, located at East Avenue, Barangay Pinyahan, Diliman, Quezon City.