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New GPC donates to flood relief

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New GPC Inc has donated medical supplies to the Ministry of Public Health in an effort to combat the rise of any infectious or airborne diseases as a result of the flooding in Regions 7 and 8, a release from the company said yesterday.

At a handing over ceremony, done at the Ministry of Health, New GPC Inc. representa­tives said that “one of the core values of the company is to be involved in the communitie­s we serve and especially in times of natural disasters.”

With this donation from New GPC INC. relief would be provided to hundreds of residents in the affected communitie­s to treat any health related illness which arise due to the flooding.

Among the items donated by New GPC were Doxycyclin­e which is used as a prophylaxi­s for Leptospiro­sis, Dimenhydri­nate tabs and liquids which are used to treat vomiting and diarrhoea, Co-trimoxazol­e suspension which is an antibiotic, various other liquid preparatio­ns, creams, ointments, disinfecta­nt and multivitam­ins.

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