PLDT-Smart Foundation provides aid to N.Samar communities, frontliners

 

    MINERVA BC NEWMAN

CEBU CITY – The PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) turned over hospital a cardiac monitor equipment to St. Scholastica’s Hospital, Inc. (SSHI) in Pambujan, Northern Samar on May 17 to cater to the emergency needs of SSHI patients, most of them belonging to indigent communities.

PLDT-Smart Foundation President Esther Santos said that the PLDT group and the PLDT-Smart Foundation are helping families and communities cope amid the pandemic.  The company utilizes all its resources to provide support to the country’s frontline healthcare workers.

“We hope that, in our own way, we are able to address the needs of SSHI as they make healthcare accessible to indigent families and communities in Northern Samar,” Santos said.

SSHI Outgoing Treasurer Sister Ana Marie Race, OSB said that they chose to be in Northern Samar which is on the top 10 poorest provinces in the country to bring quality and affordable medical services nearer to those who have no access to a hospital.  It is their way of continuing the healing ministry of Jesus to our brothers and sisters in the periphery.

Sister Ana said that the hospital was able to survive these past three years mainly due to the support of their congregation, through Philhealth payments and through donations from groups and foundations like the PSF. They also sometimes receive individual contributions and donations.

“We hope that this is only the beginning of a fruitful partnership with the PLDT-Smart Foundation in responding to the health care needs of our financially disadvantaged people.  We are grateful for your support, especially during these difficult times,” Sister Ana said. (Photos: PLDT/FB/Google Images)