Bashundhara Group provides 25,000 masks, 1,000 PPE for BGB

Bashundhara Group has provided 25,000 masks and 1,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) for Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to tackle the coronavirus situation.

Sayem Sobhan Anvir, Managing Director of Bashundhara Group handed over the safety kits to Major General Md Shafeenul Islam, BGB Director General (DG) at BGB Headquarters in Pilkhana on Sunday.

Earlier, the group provided 50,000 face masks for Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), 50,000 masks, 1,400 packets of food items for Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), 50,000 masks, 500 PPE and 700 packets of food items to Navy, 25,000 masks for DMP Traffic Division (North), 1,000 PPE and 50,000 masks to the Directorate General of Medical Service (DGMS) to tackle the coronavirus situation.

As part of corporate social responsibility, Bashundhara Group has set up a 2,013-bed hospital for corona patients.

Bashundhara Group has also donated Tk100 million to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund.