AXA extends help to deaf community amid COVID-19
AXA Philippines recently partnered with the Manila Doctors Hospital Corporate
Social Responsibility Office to help
members of the hearing-impaired community understand and diseminate
information on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
They teamed up for a special project
called Healthcare Equality and Accessibility for the Rights of the Deaf (HEARD),
which aims to train the hospital’s healthcare front-liners to be able to independently communicate
with deaf patients.
HEARD
provided translator assistance
to Manila Doctors Hospital’s deaf program through the
Filipino Sign Language (FSL) Access Team for COVID-19.It
is composed of volunteer doctors, healthcare
professionals, sign language interpreters, technology professionals in
delivering quality healthcare for the deaf.
“Proper
dissemination of information is vital
to the management and containment of the ongoing pandemic,” says Rahul
Hora, AXA Philippines president and CEO. “While we are getting information
from all media platforms, the deaf community do not have easy access.
Through our advocacy and with the help of the FSL Access Team, the hearing-impaired will
now have better
understanding the ongoing
health crisis.”
Aside
from providing translator assistance, AXA Philippines has also donated 100
food packs to deaf patients and has given 19 units of respirators to the
hospital which will be donated to public medical centers soon.
AXA Philippines also made a monetary
donation to the Philippine Red Cross to procure surgical masks and food packs
to all volunteers, which were distributed to 37 hospitals around Metro Manila
and Rizal Province.
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