Mr DIY helps refurbish room for medical centre
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian home improvement retailer Mr DIY recently handed over a newly refurbished multipurpose room, called The Zone, to University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), after a joint effort renovating it.
Formerly an unused medical records room, The Zone will act as a multipurpose room for UMMC employees and students to conduct and participate in lectures, tutorials, discussions, clinical teaching, as well as to update patients’ next of kin about their condition.
Mr DIY chairman Datuk Azlam Shah Alias said this is the retailer’s way of thanking the medical community in UMMC for their diligence and dedication to their duties.
“I hope that this humble contribution will go some way towards ensuring the well-being of UMMC front-liners and staff in general, by providing them a conducive space to carry out medical and healthcare education.
“On this note, I also wish to thank the team at Mr DIY and UMMC for the joint effort in rising to the call to meet the needs of this hospital, and transforming The Zone room into what it is today,” he said in a statement.
UMMC deputy director (management) Iskandar Ahmad said the centre is one of the designated hospitals for Covid19 patients and they were lucky to receive aid from various corporations, including Mr DIY, which was the first organisation to extend a helping hand during the early stages of the pandemic.
“On behalf of the hospital, I wish to express our deepest thanks to Mr DIY for this contribution of The Zone. This contribution means so much to us at UMMC as it supports our effort to provide the best service to the public,” he said.
Mr DIY has been partnering with UMCares to organise the national competition called ‘DIY Made Simple’ for secondary school students, and has collaborated with UMMC on other projects in the past.
The retailer hopes The Zone would benefit UMMC employees as a whole and welcomes future collaborations with the hospital.
The retailer also contributed towards the healthcare sector during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period by channelling its efforts towards corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Mr DIY provided front-liners with aid worth over RM3.8 million in the form of donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) suits, face masks, face shields, and materials to make face shields – both as part of its own efforts and in collaboration with other organisations.
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