SYNERGY JUNE 2021

A Quarterly Publication of St. Luke’s Medical Center - Resource Development Group SY N E R GY VOLUME 10 ISSUE No.02 GLIMMER OF HOPE There is reason to find joy and celebrate the kindness, generosity, and compassion that we have for one another. DONATIONS DONATIONS DONATIONS

EDITORIAL BOARD Arturo S. De La Peña, MD, FPCS, FACS Benjamin S.A. Campomanes, Jr., MD Joyce Laramina K. Nazario EDITORIAL TEAM EXECUTIVE EDITOR Kara Ortiga CREATIVE DIRECTOR Edric dela Rosa ASSOCIATE EDITOR Niña Bautista EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jude Trinidad THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY YOU MAY CONTACT US FOR YOUR DONATIONS: ST. LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER - RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT GROUP 5/F, St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City 32nd Street and 5th Avenue (+632) 8789-7700 extension 5076 and 5077 8/F St Luke’s College of Medicine - William H. Quasha Memorial 279 E. Rodriguez Ave., Quezon City Website: www.stlukesfoundation.org.ph E-mail: slmcfoundation@gmail.com For comments and suggestions, please call Niña Mirrela C. Bautista ReD – Fund Development Officer Tel. No.: (632) 8789-7576

SY N E R GY LOOKING OUT It has been a tough year. We have lost loved ones, colleagues, and friends. FOR ONE ANOTHER We have faced hardships. However, we have had moments of victory, too. We This time last year, the world stopped. The have been strengthened in our bonds pandemic suddenly pushed hospitals into and grown resilient through it all, we the spotlight. Fear spread, and tension have a glimmer of hope. As vaccines lingered in the air. People were forced to continue to roll out to the public, I am stay inside their homes and adapt to the waiting with bated breath for the coming “new normal.” But for us working here months, a future that seems promising. at St. Luke’s Medical Center, time has not stopped. We continued to come to work Work at the Foundation has never ceased. and some of us have even sheltered away The Foundation has reached out to more from our families. communities that may have been forgotten in the onslaught of events. The “Cheering up the Children Caravan” was rolled out to deliver essential goods and sustenance to institutions in Manila and Bulacan. The Foundation also donated an additional 40 beds to the UP-Philippine General Hospital to increase the capacity of their COVID-19 ward. Donors have also donated vitamins to the Foundation, which have benefitted the families of our staff and the children in orphanages and shelter houses. These activities of the Foundation give me hope and remind me that through it all, there is a reason to find joy and celebrate the kindness, generosity, and compassion that we have for one another. Arturo S. De La Peña, MD, FPCS, FACS 01 President & CEO St. Luke’s Medical Center President, St. Luke’s Medical Center Foundation, Inc. June 2021

SY N E R GY WORKING TOGETHER FOUNDATION HELPS BOOST UP-PGH COVID-19 CAPACITY One of the main worries of its ongoing COVID-19 hospital in 2020 during the globally concerning the Emergency Response first year of the pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic is that banner program that aims healthcare facilities cannot to assist government and These efforts aim to sustain the peak of the influx other healthcare facilities in augment the most significant of patients when cases surge. increasing or improving the public hospital’s capacity to Last April 2021, as part of the delivery of services to serve more patients infected “We Help as One” program the public. with the COVID-19 virus supporting the PGH as the needing immediate treatment. epicenter of the fight against Due to the number of cases the COVID-19 pandemic, in UP-PGH, many patients On hand to personally the St. Luke’s Foundation are either compelled to witness the turnover of the has donated 40 brand new endure long waiting lines or donation were the officials hospital beds to the UP- delayed admission because of both institutions led by Philippine General Hospital. of overcapacity. UP-PGH Medical Director Dr. The Foundation’s “We Help as Gerardo D. Legaspi and St. One” program is a component The hospital beds donation Luke’s President and CEO Dr. follows a similar batch of 50 Arturo S. De La Peña. units delivered to the same 02 June 2021

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SY N E R GY CARING CARAVAN As the implemented lockdown in the Philippines continues THE ‘CHEERING UP THE CHILDREN CARAVAN’ to stretch through time, the ROLLED OFF TO SHELTERS IN BULACAN AND youth prevented from going MANILA AND HELPING OVER 400 CHILDREN out from their homes suffer. As a result, the Foundation mounted a project reaching out to the younger generation, or the “hidden victims” of the pandemic. “Cheering Up the Children Caravan” was rolled out to lift the spirit of 04 June 2021

SY N E R GY little ones languishing in their in Bulacan and Manila to shelters.  distribute and augment the essential daily needs of the The Foundation solicited institutions caring for the the wish list of institutions children. The beneficiaries involved in the project. are Bahay at Yaman ni San Generally, the requested items Martin de Porres, Bethlehem included the day-to-day food House of Bread, Asilo de supply, hygiene products, and San Vicente de Paul, Home multi-vitamins for the children.  for the Angels Missionaries of Charity, and Home of The Caravan was then set out to five orphanages June 2021 05

SY N E R GY Joy for Sick Children— allowing the Foundation to reach out to a total of 435 children. The Foundation donated food, medicine, bed sheets, pillowcases and vitamins provided by Pascual Consumer Healthcare Corp. Although the beneficiaries were shelter houses, the five institutions serve varied age groups, genders, conditions, and needs. These institutions homed orphans, the abandoned, the runaways, the lost, and the abused—those who may have been forgotten as the pandemic wears on. 06 June 2021

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SY N E R GY FAMILY FIRST VITAMINS ARE GIVEN TO FAMILIES OF FRONTLINERS Pascual Consumer Healthcare those working at the Hot beneficiary institutions. Corporation donated 6,000 Zones who have children.  The vital role that bottles of Poten-Cee Pediatric Then they were offered Vitamins intended for the to the rest of the hospital healthcare frontliners play pediatric social service staff. Doctors, nurses, allied for the country during patients of the Outpatient healthcare professionals, the pandemic cannot be Department. However, since and other staff trooped overemphasized. Thus, free the start of the lockdown, the through the designated vitamins are one meaningful department’s operation has claiming areas for gesture that will benefit the been limited and restricted.  free vitamins for their children. families of those who have to The rest of the vitamins work at the frontlines every The Foundation also donation were distributed day, helping the children turned over 2,000 bottles of to the children of various of the modern-day heroes Poten-Cee to the Office of themselves. Corporate Planning, Business Development and Expansion Programs - the centralized receiving section of COVID-19 related donations in kind. These then were made available to staff working with COVID-19 patients or PATCH IT UP Hansaplast plastic strips from manufacturer Beiersdorf FOUNDATION DONATES PLASTIC Philippines as part of its STRIPS FOR THE COVID-19 COVID-19 program. The VACCINATION PROGRAM plastic strips are made from breathable, water-resistant, The St. Luke’s Foundation and non-stick but with donated more than 50,000 solid adhesion and wound pieces of plastic strips for the protective cushioning material.   ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in the St. Luke’s Photo show St. Luke’s Quezon City and Global City Pharmacy Services hospitals. The donation representative Alex Romero was made possible (L) receiving from Foundation through the turnover of the Manager Jude Trinidad, boxes of the plaster strips for distribution to the hospitals. 08 June 2021

SY N E R GY MIRACULOUS INTERVENTION THE FAST-MOVING SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAM SPEEDS UP THE OPERATION FOR THIS MOTHER OF TWO She was experiencing nang pang deposit sa ospital. date, Leticia is experiencing complications and difficulty May nagkwento sa akin dun sa weakness but is recovering in urinating. Leticia Valerio, a kung san ako nagpapacheck peacefully at home. She is mother of two, thought it was up na merong Foundation ang thankful the Foundation nothing but a simple bacterial St. Luke’s Medical Center.” approached her case with infection. Doctors prescribed a sense of urgency and antibiotics and expected the  In March, Leticia unending support.  complications to go away. But approached St. Luke’s to get when the pain persisted and checked up in hopes that she worsened, she decided to visit could also acquire financial a hospital in her hometown aid from the hospital’s social in Bulacan. Here, she was service program. Thankfully, admitted for three days. But Leticia was equipped with all the hospital lacked a urologist the proper documents and to tend to her, so Leticia had was immediately lined up for to move to another. After two operation within two months. weeks, a test result proved that “Sa awa ng Diyos, mabilis she had a malignant diagnosis ang naging proseso sa akin. and required surgery.  Wala naman po ako naging problema. Maganda ang “Nung time na maia-admit service ng ospital, mababait na ako, talagang kinakapos ako ang mga nurse at doktor.” To June 2021 09