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Foundation, surgical masks to hospitals in Cebu, Tarlac, Iligan City, and Cagayan de Oro. As an added boost to the frontliners, the company also pledged to donate bread packs to police and military checkpoints and hospitals in Capas, Tarlac and Iligan City. These items will help address the urgent nutritional needs of personnel implementing the community quarantines in these areas. Meantime UnionBank, the banking and financial services arm of the Aboitiz Group, is also providing support to frontliners by partnering with Caritas Manila. It is also working on the procurement of medical ventilators as proactive assistance to government hospitals, which might see a spike in patients needing respiratory aid, especially for patients testing positive for COVID-19. Identified by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases as one of the basic services that should remain open during the enhanced community quarantine, branches of UnionBank and its subsidiary CitySavings are open to serve customers nationwide while strictly implementing social distancing and health precautionary measures. UnionBank is encouraging its customers to use the bank’s mobile app and other digital banking services as the most effective and efficient way to do bank errands during this time.