The equipment will support medical teams monitoring patients diagnosed with Covid-19;
Since January, the Company has channeled over 980 hospital items to the public health system in Brazil
In yet another action within its social responsibility program, Good Deeds Are Good – Feeding the World with Solidarity, JBS has donated seven thousand oximeters to the Department of Health of São Paulo state government. The equipment, which measures oxygen saturation in the blood, will be distributed, as a matter of priority, among health units that are benchmarks in treating Covid-19 across the entire state.
The action will enable doctors to increase the number of saturation readings of people receiving treatment, which has been one of the ways of monitoring the clinical evolution of the illness. The equipment will also allow the professional medical team to provide better, quicker and more precise healthcare intervention to benefit patients.
“It gives us great satisfaction to hand over to the Government of the state of São Paulo this equipment that will result in a significant advance in fighting the disease”, says Fernando Meller, executive officer for People & Management at Seara and manager of the Good Deeds Are Good program.
“Possibly, the measure with the greatest impact on preventing serious complications from Covid-19 is the early detection of lower concentrations of oxygen in the blood (saturation), immediately correcting this. This decline in saturation occurs without the patient noticing it until it is too late. Oximeters are easy-to-handle instruments that allow saturation to be measured and indicate if there is a need for early replacement of oxygen, thereby avoiding subsequent invasive respirator support”, says Dr. Adauto Castelo Filho, the infectologist providing consultancy to JBS on matters involving the new coronavirus.
JBS AND FLORA DONATE 10,000 FOOD BASKETS AND HYGIENE KITS TO THE SÃO PAULO SOCIAL FUND
JBS and Flora have delivered 5,000 food baskets and 5,000 hygiene and cleaning kits to the Social Fund of the state of São Paulo. The donation will be redirected to the NGO/AIDS Forum of the state of São Paulo and will benefit a significant portion of citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and who have seen their incomes dwindle, such as People Living with HIV (local acronym, PVHIV), transvestites, as well as trans women and men. The hygiene kits, assembled by Flora, contain gel alcohol, Minuano brand disinfectant and detergent, as well as bars of Albany soap.
GOOD DEEDS DO GOOD
The actions are part of the JBS social responsibility program, Good Deeds Do Good – Feeding the World with Solidarity, which has already channeled R$ 400 million in three operating fronts: health, social and science. It is estimated that 77 million people have already benefitted across all Brazilian states and in the Federal District.
Through Good Deeds Do Good, in 2021, the actions of JBS also include 980 items of hospital equipment that will enable the creation of new ICU beds in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to 400 oxygen cylinders for the Amazon and funds to maintain the medical assistance services in the Paraisópolis community in the capital of São Paulo, for two months.
Find out more about the program at jbs.com.br/fazerobemfazbem.