KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s frontline medical workers get a boost from Osimal Foundation which continues to bring in more supplies for hospitals statewide.

Over the last two days, the foundation has brought 2,700 pieces of N95 facemasks from South Korea and China, 6,850 pairs of boot covers, and 3,000 three-ply facemasks all worth RM50,000 to the store at Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang to be distributed to hospitals in Sabah.

Osimal Foundation chairman Tan Sri Richard Malanjun said that another RM360,000 worth of 3,000 personal protection suits, 5,000 face shields as well as N95 facemasks will be in next week, at the latest.

He added that the latest contribution came with the big contributions totalling RM320,000 from Kuala Lumpur-based international insurance company MCIS, a member of the Sanlam Group based in South Africa.

“MCIS is donating RM320,000 of the RM360,00 to help purchase the protective personal equipment (PPE),  face shields and boot covers,” he said, adding that the foundation would cover the rest of the cost through other donors.

He said that the foundation has been getting support from various big and small donors such as Sea Hibiscus Sdn Bhd, Pembinaan Azam Jaya Sdn Bhd, Kinabalu Golf Club, Borneo Housing Mortgage Finance Bhd, Yayasan Amanah Assofwah Almalikiyyah (Dato Kamaruddin Meranun of Air Asia), state-owned Sabah Energy Corp and Berjaya Land.

He said many people have come forward to donate from sums of RM10,000 to whatever they can afford to help ease the challenges faced by the frontliners.

“We are so thankful to them all. We will continue to assist in helping our frontliners,” said Malanjun, the former Chief Justice of Malaysia.

On April 3, Osimal together with the Johor-based Dato Chua Song Lim and Datin Koh Said Eng Foundation helped source some 10,000 Covid-19 testing reagent kits from Singapore as stocks for the reagents had nearly run out in Sabah.

The state government also contributed for the purchase of the reagents worth US$200,000 (about RM900,000).

Source: Borneo Today