CHMSC turns over CHED-funded PPE to partners

Carlos Hilado Memorial State College (CHMSC) turned over 500 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to its institutional partners who are in the frontline of the ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in a ceremony held on September 16, 2021, at the Global Learning Café of its Talisay Campus.

The PPE were a part of the CHMSC Safe Products project of the research and extension teams funded by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) under its Higher Education Development Fund Staff with a grant value of Php 754,047.00. The sets of PPE consisted of suits, aprons, shoe covers, and face masks for health frontliners.

The sets of PPE were given to Bayanihan Mission represented by its founder and president, Dr. Josephine Grace Chua Rojo; Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital represented by Archie Celorio and Melchor Gana-an; and the Negros Occidental Provincial Health Office represented by Zarina Zara Zafra, Provincial Epidemiological and Surveillance Unit Coordinator, and Stephanie Joy Guino-o, Disease Surveillance Officer.

Also, present in the ceremony were representatives of Barangay Zone 3 in Talisay City, namely Nancy Garcia, Brgy. Kagawad, Liza Anonsawon, and Chirezel Jardeliza. Their team served as CHMSC’s partner in the sewing of all the PPE.

The ceremony started with a welcome remark given by Rhoderick K. Samonte, Director for External Affairs followed by a message from Andrew Eusebio S. Tan, PhD, Vice President for Research and Extension. Ma. Lourdes Hagos, the project leader of the PPE Production Team gave her remarks about the project and its members. Mary Grace Nacionales, Director for Extension and Community Services gave the closing remarks after the presentation and turn-over of the PPE.

The partner representatives expressed their gratitude to CHMSC and CHED for the PPE sets that are essential to frontliners and health workers.* (Diesyme P. Ordilla)