Our partner-banks will provide

Grab Philippines said on Monday banks have already offered a “price excursion” on automobile loans of its partner-drivers whilst the entire Luzon is under lockdown because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

There changed into a conflict among the journey-hailing large and Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta birthday party-listing Rep. Jericho Nograles after the latter insisted over the weekend that Grab ought to defend its drivers from foreclosures for the duration of the month-lengthy superior network quarantine.

In response, Brian Cu, Grab Philippines president, said the group already settled this situation even before Nograles, who has been a critic of Grab, made his declaration.

“Right after the declaration of Metro Manila quarantine, we foresaw the problems our drivers might suffer and asked or coordinated with the banks for a payment holiday. The banks fortunately obliged, and will increase this as wished,” Cu stated in a statement on Monday.

Grab stated eleven banks have implemented auto-mortgage charge excursion or mortgage payment extensions, namely: Eastwest Bank, Toyota Financial Services, Banco de Oro, Security Bank, PS Bank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., Union Bank, Robinsons Bank, Metrobank and United Coconut Planters Bank.

“Our partner-banks will provide a grace period. This is on top of the alternative remedy efforts we are arranging for our motive force-partners to help them climate the contemporary crisis,” he delivered.

The business enterprise then advised Nograles to “launch his congressional budget for the drivers to expose he is honest and now not simply out to get media mileage on the rate of Grab and most of the time its drivers.”

Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings Inc. (MPHHI) has amplified its coronavirus disorder 2019 (Covid-19) response through the status quo of a crisis team.

The medical institution organization said the 16 officials in their hospitals, at the side of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. Chairman Manuel Pangilinan and MPHHI President and Chief Executive Officer Augusto Palisoc Jr., created a crisis team to “coordinate its activities to deal with the rising variety Covid-19 associated instances.”

Cardinal Santos Medical Center and Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital head Pilar Nenuca Almira became the precise the leader of the team.

“The u . S .’s health care system faces unparalleled challenges because of the continued pandemic, caused by an endemic this is unexpected and appears without problems transmitted. Our hospitals group are focusing their assets on important worries, specifically clinic take care of the maximum critically-ill patients infected with the aid of Covid-19,” Pangilinan was quoted as pronouncing.

The institution has also chosen Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Sta. Mesa, Manila as its principal Covid-19 referral facility.

“By designating a health facility in the (medical institution) organization to be the principle referral facility for PUM (individual below monitoring) or PUI (character under research) and Covid-infected instances, we’re aligning our efforts with the government to address the pandemic,” Almira defined in a declaration.

Meanwhile, the relaxation of the hospitals inside the MPHHI network had been requested to review their spaces, employees complement and technical assets “so one can doubling so as to double their present ability for Covid-related patients to more than six hundred beds.”

Should the pandemic keep to spread, the MPHHI hospitals have been additionally mandated to plot for supplemental tents with beds and enough gadget for non-vital Covid-19 sufferers.

The relaxation of the businesses underneath the MVP Group of Companies have also prolonged their help to key government hospitals with the aid of sharing materials like virus specimen series kits, water deliver, alcohol, face masks, disinfectants and private defensive gadget.