SMBR Distributed Medical Equipment Supplies Through Task Force of Rapid Handling of Covid-19 in Palembang City

PALEMBANG – Semen Baturaja (SMBR) has donated several medical equipment supplies to Task Force of Rapid Handling of Covid-19 in Palembang city on Wednesday, 13 May, as one of the company’s vigilant policies in compliance to the decreed Letter of Large Scale Social Distancing enactment by the Ministry of Health of Indonesia. Report by the Task Force concerning the increase in positive Covid-19 infection case, where a total of 441 patients are listed, in South Sumatra as per 14 May 2020 has further solidified the enactment. “With the increasing number of infection case, the frontier of the medical force needs to be emboldened,” as Fuad Azizi, the Senior Manager Corporate Social Responsibility representing SMBR Management team, stated when he distributed the supplies to the Regional Secretary of Palembang city, Ratu Dewa, in the official residence of the mayor of Palembang.

The medical supplies given consisted of 1250 pieces of medical mask, 50 pieces of protective equipments, 5000 pieces of handscoons, 50 pieces of goggle glasses, 50 liter of hand sanitizers, and 2000 pieces of cloth face mask. Other than that, during the same occasion, SMBR has also donated 438 packages of food supplies. “We also handed out free food supplies for members of the Task Force. Hopefully it helps them all,” Fuad added. Previously, SMBR, who has been appointed as the coordinator for the Task Force of Covid-19 Disaster Handling in the region of Ogan, Komering, and Ulu (OKU), had also already provided medical equipments to said Task Force.