Bashundhara GP Provides 25,000 masks, 3,000 PPE for Ansar, VDP

The Bashundhara Group, one of the leading business conglomerates in Bangladesh, supported the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) with 25.000 masks and 3000 PPEs as a preventive measure to fight coronavirus infection.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir handed over the protective equipment to the Director-General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Kazi Sharif Kaikobad at the headquarters of Ansar & VDP in the capital on Wednesday.

Deputy Director General (Operations) of Bangladesh Ansar Md Mahbubul Islam, Editor of Bangladesh Pratidin and CEO of News24 Naem Nizam and other senior officials of Bangladesh Ansar were present in the event.

The Group has stood by the people and government agencies that play a leading role in the battle against coronavirus in the country.

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Bashundhara Group has set up the country’s largest 2,013-bed hospital for corona patients.

Bashundhara Group has also donated Tk 100 million to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.

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

Moreover, several thousand families of helpless and low-income people were provided with foods.