BDO Life gives additional benefits to policyholders
BDO Life Assurance Co. Inc. is providing additional insurance benefits to those who are covered by its individual life plans and afflicted by the new coronavirus at no extra cost.
The life insurance arm of BDO Unibank, Inc. commits to pay an additional P20,000 in the unfortunate event that the insured individual passes away from COVID-19 between March 1 to July 1, 2020. If the insured individual is covered by any Critical Illness product–Health Secure, HealthFlex Advanced, or Dread Disease Rider–BDO Life will release this additional benefit immediately upon diagnosis from an FDA-approved test conducted within the abovementioned period.
Insured individuals who are qualified to receive Daily Hospital Income Benefits from BDO Life’s Hospital Income Rider will receive an additional P2,000 per day of confinement for a maximum of 14 days, if they are confined between March 1 to July 1, 2020 due to COVID-19.
BDO Life will accept claims for this additional benefit from its customers until Dec. 1, 2020.
Alsons helps host communities
Employees of the Alsons Power’s Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC) baseload coal-fired power plant turned over 140 50-kilogram sacks of rice to the residents of Maasim, Sarangani Province, SEC’s host municipality.
SEC also donated patient beds and face shields for medical staff of the Maasim municipal patient care facility for patients with mild corona virus symptoms and persons under investigation.
Frontline police officers manning key checkpoints at the border between Sarangani Province and General Santos City received coffee, creamer, assorted biscuits, instant noodles, bottled water and other essentials from courtesy of SEC.
The Alsons Power Group, Mindanao’s first private sector power generator, is engaged in efforts to ensure that residents and front-liners in its host communities have access to food and other essentials as the enhanced community quarantine remains in place over key areas of Mindanao.
Free education tools
PLDT Inc. and Smart Communication Inc. recently provided the Department of Education (DepEd) with a package of digital services to support online learning amid the nationwide enhanced community quarantine.
DepEd Commons site has been made free to students and teachers using Smart even without data load, giving them access to a multitude of educational resources for use in various grade levels of curriculum.
DepEd Commons has been designed as a direct solution to give access to online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OERs) during class suspensions and other similar circumstances. OERs in DepEd Commons are authored by public school teachers who are subject experts, properly cited and acknowledged. Teachers can retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute the content by blending it with a learning management system to deliver a distance learning modality.
The package also includes 10 mother tongue-based literacy apps that can be downloaded for free from Google Play under #LearnSmart. These interactive apps help develop literacy, numeracy, and higher-order thinking skills among children from Kinder to Grade 3.
“Through this whitelisting, concerned parties with Smart subscriptions may continue to log on to the DepEd Commons platform through a device without load credits.”
PLDT has also extended its services to include free access to #CyberSmart resources that equip teachers with knowledge on cybersecurity and safety, data privacy and protection, and combating fake news.
To reach out to teachers and students who are unable to go online, Smart will also provide 10 units of the School-in-a-Bag, a portable digital laboratory designed to facilitate continuous learning in times of emergencies and disasters.
These services also augment the collective bayanihan efforts of the PLDT group and MVP Group of Companies to assist the different government agencies in implementing the necessary programs to control the spread of the virus and still service the general public amid the ECQ.
Health facility
The Villar Group of Companies said it has completed the 132-bed “We Heal as One” Center at ULTRA, Pasig City in three days as an additional health facility to isolate and treat new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
The Villar Group together with the Department of Public Works and Highways finished the job in three days by working 24/7, the group said. The health facility at ULTRA is set to be turned over to The Philippine National Police (PNP) Medical Corps. within the week.
Two nurse stations in the facility were also completed in record time.
“We acknowledge that optimal isolation space is much needed amid this pandemic, hence, we fully support the government in its drive to repurpose any available government or private structure into health facilities,” said Manny Villar, Villar Group of Companies chairman.
Last April 15, the group also turned over the PICC quarantine facility with 294 patient cubicles, 6 nurse stations, and 6 smart houses outside Forum building three days ahead of schedule.
#OneGlobeVsCOVID raises P27.5M for COVID-19 assistance
Globe Telecom employees have raised over P27.5 million from a fundraising initiative primarily aimed at providing much-need personal protective equipment, face shields, and face masks to healthcare workers in 50 hospitals across the country.
The #OneGlobeVsCOVID project of the company’s over 8,000 workforce realized total employee donations of P13.79 million which was 100% matched by the company and shareholder Singtel.
“We are extremely proud of our employees for their generosity. Our efforts as OneGlobe have seen support for our fellow Filipinos coming together not only from our employees and shareholders but even our customers as well,” said Ernest Cu, Globe President and CEO.
The list of intended beneficiaries of face shields, face masks, and/or PPEs include: Sta. Ana Hospital, Veterans Hospital, National Kidney Transplant Institute, Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, Manila Naval Hospital, General Trias Doctors, UHBI- Parañaque Doctors’ Hospital, Perpetual Succor Hospital, UST Medical Center, San Juan De Dios, Philippine Children’s Medical Center, Manila East Medical Center, Las Pinas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center, National Center for Mental Health, San Lorenzo Ruiz General Hospital, Amang Rodriguez Hospital, Rizal Medical Center, National Children’s Hospital, Ortigas Hospital and Health Center, St. Lukes BGC, Quirino Memorial Medical Center, Tondo Medical Center, Philippine Orthopedic Hospital, and San Juan Medical Center.
Others are: Ospital Ng Makati, Ospital ng Maynila, Ospital ng Tondo, Pasig City General Hospital, Rosario Maclang Bautista General Hospital, Caloocan City Medical Center, Valenzuela Medical Center, Notre Dame Hospital Baguio, St. Pascal De Baylon, Bicol Regional Training & Teaching Hospital, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Southern Philippines Medical Center, Roxas Memorial Hospital, Manila Doctors Hospital, The Medical City, UERM Memorial Hospital
Cardinal Santos, Ace Medical Center Pateros, Marikina Valley Medical Center, Perpetual Help Medical Center- Binan, South City Hospital and Medical Center, Bataan General Hospital Catarman Doctors, Cagayan Valley Medical Center, Dr. Ricardo Y Ladrido Memorial District Hospital, Lambunao Iloilo, and Zamboanga Medical Center.
