Bear Brand Manufacturers Donate Thousands Of Food Products To Wisma Haji Pondok Gede Emergency Hospital

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Wisma Haji Pondok Gede Emergency Hospital, East Jakarta received 45,402 nutritious food and beverage products as well as medical equipment assistance such as oxygen concentrators, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) masks and hazmats from a private company engaged in the food and beverage product sector. beverage, Nestle Indonesia, to help ease the burden of handling the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

This assistance is a form of collaboration that is indeed the key in handling the virus from Wuhan.

"We appreciate the support for the RDSC Wisma Haji Pondok Gede and the health workers who participated in carrying out their duties in the midst of this pandemic. This mutual cooperation effort will help us in handling the COVID-19 pandemic," said Head of the Center for Health Determinant Analysis of the Ministry of Health, doctor Andi Saguni in his statement, quoted from Antara, Sunday, July 25.

Wisma Haji COVID-19 Hospital is one of the emergency hospitals initiated by the Government in early July 2021 to assist in handling the spike in cases that occurred recently due to the entry of a new variant, namely the Delta variant.

RSDC Wisma Haji Pondok Gede only accepts official referrals from health centers and hospitals for patients with mild to moderate symptoms. Meanwhile, patients with severe to critical symptoms cannot be treated at this location because there are no adequate facilities.

Until July 2021, it was recorded that in Indonesia there were 389 thousand beds in all health facilities in Indonesia, 30 percent of which were requested to be allocated as a place to handle COVID-19 or around 130 thousand beds.

Meanwhile, from the private sector that helps RSDC Pondok Gede, he hopes that this assistance can ease the burden on health workers and health facilities in the midst of the war against the invisible virus.

"We are aware that the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia can only be overcome with the cooperation of all members of the community and the government, therefore Nestlé Indonesia is here to cooperate and provide assistance to RSDC Wisma Haji Pondok Gede in the hope that it can help ease the burden on personnel and facilities. health and the community affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in mutual cooperation," said PT Nestle Indonesia Corporate Affairs Director Debora R. Tjandrakusuma.

For information, Nestle Indonesia is a producer of Bear Brand milk. Meanwhile, in the midst of the COVID-19 cases that continued to rage and the implementation of Emergency PPKM for approximately two weeks, many people were hunting for daily food needs, including Bear Brand milk products.

Even so, Bear Brand's milk is said to be hard to find around Depok, West Java. However, Nestle Indonesia's Head of Corporate Communication Stephan Sinisuka said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nestle was focused on its responsibility to meet consumer demand for nutritious food and beverage products, one of which was Bear Milk.