Antibiotics, cough medicine, antihistamines, anti-malaria medicine and other healthcare supplies worth $2.1 million have arrived at Silliman University from the New York-based Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) for victims of Tropical Storm Sendong.
The donation, which arrived January 27, will be distributed following an orientation on February 6 with the identified recipient cities and municipalities which were badly hit by the storm.
Donations continue to flow even after a month tropical Typhoon Sendong hit Dumaguete City, Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. As of January, Silliman received around P720,000 in cash donations. An updated report on the relief operations of the University is available on the University website.
A press release from CMMB said the air shipment of the massive donation was covered by Nassau County Commissioner Craig Craft of the Office of Emergency Management. Silliman alumna Dr. Evangeline Manjares, 2010 as Outstanding Sillimanian in the field of Community Service and presently Dean for Academic Student Services of the Nassau Community College, was among those instrumental in the management of the donation, the press release from Silliman University said.
University personnel from its Institutional Advancement Office, Utzurrum Business and Finance Center and the Internal Audit Office, conducted an inventory of the donations to ensure full accountability to CMMB and proper distribution of the medicines, the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Senate Select Oversight Committee on Intelligence and Confidential Funds, Programs and Activities headed by Senator Panfilo Lacson also donated mattresses, blankets and boxes of distilled water to the victims of Typhoon Sendong.
Distributed through the University were 430 mattresses, 430 blankets and 200 boxes of distilled water. Recipients were victims in barangays Batinguel, Junob, Pulantubig and Looc in Dumaguete City, and barangays Tubtubon, Ajong, Malabo and Calabnugan in Sibulan.