This March, JBS, through its social responsibility program, “Good Deeds Do Good – Feeding the World with Solidarity”, has delivered 74 hospital respirators, of which 70 to the departments of health of Brazil’s three southern states: Santa Catarina (50), Paraná (10) and Rio Grande do Sul (10). The four remaining devices were delivered at Lins, in the São Paulo hinterland, to the Lins Charity Hospital, two of them under the “Good Deeds Are Good” program, and two through the intermediary of Meat Snacks Partners (MSP), a joint-venture between the Company and Jack Link’s.
In Santa Catarina, the company has also provided 18 infusion pumps for assembling new ICU beds, while the city of Xanxerê received 128,000 personal protection equipment kits (PPEs), besides funds to purchase medications used in treating patients whose conditions are critical.
In Minas Gerais, JBS also donated 10 vital signs monitors to the municipal authorities of Uberlândia (MG). The program has already benefited 77 million Brazilians in over 310 municipalities across the country’s five regions.
“The donations by JBS meet the emergency requirements of the healthcare systems of those regions, which were agreed with the local authorities. Since last year we have helped the state counter the pandemic and we are confident that we are contributing to building a permanent legacy for public health when all this is over”, says Fernando Meller, executive officer for People and Management at Seara.