RSA offers free COVID testing for PBA staff
San Miguel Corporation is making sure the health and safety of its own PBA family is secured.
All 41 employees of the league led by Commissioner Willie Marcial are scheduled to undergo free COVID19 testing courtesy of SMC president and COO Ramon S. Ang.
The krm, which has been at the forefront of providing support to the government in slowing down the outbreak of the pandemic, recently provided testing booths and kits to all 17 Local Government Units in the National Capital Region (NCR) to expand the country’s testing capacity for the coronavirus.
The umbrella group of teams San Miguel, Magnolia, and Barangay Ginebra earlier also donated RT-PCR testing machines and automate RNA machines to key government hospitals.
Now, SMC is taking care of its own backyard.
Barangay Ginebra board of governor and SMC sports director Alfrancis Chua visited the PBA office on Monday as the league Management Committee personally convened for the krst time in two months since the country was put under an Enhanced Community Quarantine.
Chua relayed Ang’s generous offer to have all regular PBA employees undergo COVID-19 testing for free.
Marcial expressed his gratitude. “Pinapaabot namin ang taospusong pasasalamat kay SMC President Ramon Ang sa malaking tulong na kanyang ibinabahagi upang matiyak ang kalusugan at kaligtasan ng mga empleyado ng PBA,” said the commissioner.
Marcial added the move is a major step toward the right direction in the league’s bid to knally resume its 45th season that was stalled indeknitely following the outbreak.
The COVID-19 testing will be done at the San Miguel headquarters in Ortigas.
The ManCom meeting was called to come up with proper protocols that will be followed once regular operation within the PBA office resumes.