KUCHING, Apr 2: Two local companies, Hubline Bhd (Hubline) and Supreme Consolidated Resources Bhd (Supreme Consolidated) have joined the endeavour to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus (Covide-19) by donating RM290,000 to the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF).
Hubline, a Bursa Malaysia listed company with interest in the shipping industry has contributed RM150,000 to SDRF to provide essential medical supplies and equipment for healthcare professionals as well as frontliners who put their lives at risk battling the pandemic.
The company in a statement said out of the amount, the company donated RM100,000 and its directors contributed RM50,000.
The directors are Datuk Richard Wee, Royston Ling and Dennis Ling.
Meanwhile, Supreme Consolidated, a company that deals with import, trading and distribution of frozen, chilled, dairy and dry food products, donated RM140,000 including RM40,000 from the directors who include Wee and Lim Ah Ted.
The company said the donations will be used to purchase essential medical supplies in collaboration with the SDRF.
Wee hoped their contribution would help ease the burden of the state government and the Health Ministry in buying medical equipment, medicines, disposable items and other medical necessities.
“We hope that our small contribution will encourage more Sarawakian companies to come forward to stand together with our State government in fighting this unprecedented Covid-19 crisis.
“This effort is the empathy and solidarity towards the difficulties encountered by the people during this challenging time during the Movement Control Order(MCO),” he said.
In the meantime, the donation was presented to State Disaster Management Committee chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas by Wee at Wisma Bapa Malaysia here yesterday. —DayakDaily
