PUTRAJAYA: More corporates have stepped forward with donations to the government’s Covid-19 fund.
They gave cash and medical equipment worth more than RM16mil to aid the fight against the pandemic.
The corporates’ top executives handed over their donations to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at his Perdana Putra office here.
The donors are Mah Sing Group (RM3.9mil worth of ventilators), Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd (RM1mil as well as 28 ventilators and a haemodialysis machine worth RM5mil), Perodua (RM2mil), Naza Corporation Holdings Sdn Bhd (RM1.25mil), RHB Bank (RM1mil), 99 SpeedMart (RM1mil) and Sapura Group (RM1mil).
The government launched the fund last month to help ease the burden of those directly impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
Managed by the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma), the fund covers those under 14-day home quarantine as well as Covid-19 patients warded in hospitals.
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Sapura Group president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin presenting a donation of RM1mil.
Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad handing over a donation of RM2mil for the national Covid-19 fund.
99 SpeedMart executive director Ng Lee Tieng presenting a donation of RM1mil.
RHB Bank Bhd group managing director Datuk Khairussaleh Ramli handing over a contribution of RM1mil.
Naza Corporation Holdings Sdn Bhd group executive chairman and CEO S.M. Nasarudin S.M. Nasimuddin pledging RM1.25mil.
Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd executive chairman Tan Sri Rozali Ismail handing over a donation of RM1mil as well as 28 ventilators and a haemodialysis machine worth RM5mil to the PM.
