Multinational Pharmaceuticals, COVID-19 Relief Goods

Novartis donates 30,000 masks, Mundipharma sponsors sanitary kits

Bayer to provide 280 CT contrast agents, Ferring supports 2000 hand sanitizers

The KRPIA, donated 100 million won through the Red Cross

Multinational pharmaceutical companies make donations to overcome COVID-19 crisis.

 

According to the related industry, Korean corporations from multinational pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, Mundipharma, Bayer, and Ferring, including the Korean Research-based Pharma Industry Association (KRPIA), have supported donations and relief supplies this month (March).

 

Novartis recently donated 30,000 masks to the vulnerable.

 

For the vulnerable people who are having difficulties in supply and demand, the company has delivered masks supported by the global headquarters to the KOREA PHS.

 

The KOREA PHS is sponsoring educational and social welfare organizations approved by the MOEL, and are carrying out various sponsorship projects for the health and safety of the vulnerable to overcome this situation.

 

On the 18th, Mundipharma donated a sanitary product kit to overcome COVID-19 crisis to the Seoul branch of the KACCC.

 

Hygiene kits have been prepared to help personal hygiene management, such as washing hands of children and adolescents, in a situation where it is difficult to secure a quantity due to the recent increase in demand for hygiene products.

 

the KACCC is a non-profit organization that provides integrated education and social welfare services to help children and adolescents in need of social care throughout the country enjoy a safe and happy life.

 

Hygiene products will be delivered to each child center in the Seoul area and will be provided to children in need.

 

Pharmaceutical companies

In the case of Bayer, opinions were collected for each division.

 

The company's contrast agent’s business division supported 280 contrast agents worth ￦13 million for chest coronary augmentation in severe COVID-19 infected patients through the Korean Open Doctors Society composed of medical workers.

 

In addition, Bayer Healthcare recently provided 500 Redoxon vitamins to the Wolseong Social Welfare Center to support overcoming COVID-19 crisis in the Daegu region, which is struggling with the massive spread of COVID-19.

 

Ferring Pharmaceuticals purchased 2,000 hand sanitizers and 200 protective clothing as donations from employees who voluntarily raised them, and donated them to the Daegu Metropolitan City Office's Disaster Safety Response Headquarters on the 5th.

 

This donation started with the suggestion of one employee, and the purpose was to help the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas, which suffered the most from the COVID-19 crisis.

 

The KRPIA, a representative organization of multinational pharmaceutical companies, decided to donate ￦100 million to the Korean Red Cross so that they could be used at the COVID-19 quarantine site.

 

Individual donations of pharmaceutical's employees are also conducted.

 

If employees participate in a small fundraising, the KRPIA will add donations to the matching fund.

 

The donations are sent to the Senior Citizens Support Center for Living Alone, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and are used to purchase emergency kits for food and beverages and supplies for health aids to the elderly living alone in vulnerable groups, including Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

 

Avi BenShoshan, President of the KRPIA said, "Global pharmaceutical companies, as part of the Korean society, will strive to contribute to the efforts of various local communities to overcome COVID-19.

 

We will accelerate our R&D activities to develop vaccines and therapeutics that are our duties".