Youngone providing health services to flood-hit people
Sunday, 2 September 2007
FE Report
Youngone has mobilised its own doctors, nurses and paramedics to provide emergency health services to the flood-affected people around the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) area.
Earlier, Youngone, the country's biggest multi-national company in the ready-made garment sector (RMG), donated Tk 5.0 million to the Chief Adviser's Relief Fund through BEPZA and also distributed medicines among 7,208 flood-hit people, mostly working in the DEPZ.
As part of discharging its corporate social responsibility (CSR) the company set up a temporary medical camp Saturday at Shishu Kanon Ideal School in Tongi upazila under Gazipur, where the doctors provided emergency medical services and distributed medicines among about 1,050 flood-affected people.
The programme will also continue at the same place tomorrow (Monday). The Youngone medical service centre will operate at Kaliakoir under Gazipur on September 4 and 5.
The company provided the same services at Kurgaon in Nabinagar, at Baniapara in Baktarpur, at Guchchhagram in Kalampur and at Konda in Dhamsona.
The Youngone programme includes total 12 days of medical service camp, two days in each of six sites. Most of the treatment is being provided for diarrhoea, skin diseases, eye and respiratory tract infections, malnutrition and other personal hygiene-related ailments.
Youngone has mobilised its own doctors, nurses and paramedics to provide emergency health services to the flood-affected people around the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) area.
Earlier, Youngone, the country's biggest multi-national company in the ready-made garment sector (RMG), donated Tk 5.0 million to the Chief Adviser's Relief Fund through BEPZA and also distributed medicines among 7,208 flood-hit people, mostly working in the DEPZ.
As part of discharging its corporate social responsibility (CSR) the company set up a temporary medical camp Saturday at Shishu Kanon Ideal School in Tongi upazila under Gazipur, where the doctors provided emergency medical services and distributed medicines among about 1,050 flood-affected people.
The programme will also continue at the same place tomorrow (Monday). The Youngone medical service centre will operate at Kaliakoir under Gazipur on September 4 and 5.
The company provided the same services at Kurgaon in Nabinagar, at Baniapara in Baktarpur, at Guchchhagram in Kalampur and at Konda in Dhamsona.
The Youngone programme includes total 12 days of medical service camp, two days in each of six sites. Most of the treatment is being provided for diarrhoea, skin diseases, eye and respiratory tract infections, malnutrition and other personal hygiene-related ailments.