AstraZeneca Hong Kong supports Healthcare Community for 25,000 KF94/N95 Masks
Release Date: 2020-02-12
AstraZeneca as a sustainable organisation, we are committed to being a trusted partner, having a positive impact on society, and being an indispensable ally in the quest to meet rising global and local demand for effective healthcare.
Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong, our community, especially healthcare sector, has been rushing to buy masks and all the sanitization products for epidemic prevention. We also learned that several private clinics are closed in services due to the lack of protective masks to conduct clinical consultations to patients. In view of this situation, AstraZeneca is grateful to our sincere support to Society for Innovative Healthcare Hong Kong (SIHHK) for launching the program: ‘Primary Care Support Initiative - KF94/N95 Mask Donation Program’, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Medical Association (HKMA) and Hong Kong Doctors Union (HKDU). A total of 25,000 protective masks have been donated to private clinic doctors in order to mitigate the shortage of protective masks.
AstraZeneca is also working on other initiatives to help support the healthcare community and different vulnerable groups in the society to fight the epidemic together.
General Manager of AstraZeneca Hong Kong and Macau, Gwenael Meneux said “We hope to ease the urgent needs of the health care professionals as well as the whole community. We will continue to monitor closely the development of the situation, and We will continue to pay close attention to the development of the situation, and provide full support to the peoplework with all sectors of the community to fight the epidemic.”
