When kindness stokes hope, defining purpose: docs and patients exemplify humanity amid pandemic

Submitted by mcco on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 22:20
Serving fellow Filipinos amid the pandemic, our country’s frontline healthcare workers brave each day to save lives. Dr. Marissa Lim is one such frontline hero. An internist nephrologist based in Quezon City, Dr. Lim sees patients at Diliman Doctors Hospital and Philippine Heart Center, while teaching at East Avenue Medical Center.

Alagang Kapatid, PLDT roll out community-pantry-on-wheels in Tondo and Navotas

Submitted by mcco on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 11:54
Companies and employees of the MVP group have come together to support the countrywide movement of community pantries. Aid in the form of rice, produce, and other dried goods were mobilized by the group to initially benefit over 8,000 individuals and their families through the pantries that have been set-up across Metro Manila.

PLDT, Smart team up with gov't for connectivity at isolation sites, COVID-19 facilities

Submitted by mcco on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 16:09
PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are working closely with the government and expanding their support for the government's COVID-19 response by rolling out fiber-powered WiFi connectivity to more government-run quarantine, swabbing, isolation sites and other COVID-19 facilities nationwide.

Volunteer nurses from Mindanao reinforce Metro Pacific Hospitals in National Capital Region+

Submitted by mcco on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:08
As the long drawn out COVID-19 pandemic continues to overwhelm hospitals in the Philippines’ National Capital Region+, assistance from the MVP Group’s Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings Inc. (MPHHI) is coming in as volunteer nurses from Mindanao brave the risks to help fellow medical front liners save more lives.  Three hospitals in Mindanao have sent 16 nurses from their own rosters to reinforce their big sister hospitals in the nation’s capital.