IOM donates anti-COVID-19 supplies to Basilan province
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 10:00 AM Thu Apr 8, 2021
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John M. Unson
The biohazard supplies and equipment from IOM arrived Wednesday in Basilan. (From Basilan governor's office)
COTABATO CITY --- An entity under the United Nations donated Wednesday to Basilan province biohazard protection supplies and other provisions needed for domestic COVID-19 containment efforts.
The International Organization for Migration, or IOM, also supplied Basilan, through the office of Gov. Jim Salliman, eight “bio safety refrigerators” needed for storing anti-coronavirus vaccines and solar generators for each to ensure round-the-clock operability.
Salliman said the IOM also turned over to the provincial government facemasks, face shields, surgical gloves and protective shoe linings for their anti-COVID-19 frontliners.
“We are grateful to the IOM for its gesture. These supplies will enhance our campaign versus COVID-19,” Salliman said.
Basilan, a component-province of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, covers 11 towns and two cities, Isabela and Lamitan.
The IOM, a transnational humanitarian outfit of the United Nations, also provided the regional government of BARMM last January with costly anti-COVID 19 biohazard equipment.
The IOM’s anti-coronavirus program is being assisted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the United States of America and the German Humanitarian Assistance.