Bashundhara Group provides 25,000 masks, 1,000 PPE for BGB

Bashundhara Group, one of the leading business conglomerates in Bangladesh, provided Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) with 25,000 masks and 1,000 PPEs as a preventive measure to tackle coronavirus infection.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir handed over the protective equipment to BGB Director General (DG) Maj Gen Md Shafeenul Islam at BGB Headquarters in the capital’s Pilkhana on Sunday.

The Group has stood by the people and the government agencies, which are playing a frontline role in combating the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Bashundhara Group has set up the country’s largest 2,013-bed hospital for corona patients.

Bashundhara Group has also donated Tk 100 million to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.

Earlier, the Group provided 50,000 face masks for Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), 50,000 masks and 1,400 packets of food items for Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), 50,000 masks, 500 PPEs and 700 packets of food items for Navy, 25,000 masks for DMP Traffic Division (North), 1,000 PPEs and 50,000 masks for the Directorate General of Medical Service (DGMS) to tackle the coronavirus situation.

Moreover, several thousand families of helpless and low-income people were provided with foods.

SOURCE : Daily Sun