The four companies have so far donated a combined RON4 million. To date, over 40 million masks, gloves, protective coveralls and over two million FFP2 masks have been contracted. The products arrive weekly in Romania on cargo charter aircrafts, including repurposed TAROM aircraft.
The necessary products are centralised weekly by the Department for Emergency Situations, jointly with the Health Ministry, and based on the demand, the distribution is conducted to those in the frontline. The target is to collect monthly donations of RON50 million.
Banca Transilvania CEO Omer Tetik said the objective is to get 4,000 companies in the project, adding cooperation and solidarity are the most important thing now to overcome the medical crisis and to keep society and the economy in the best possible shape, so that people are affected as little as possible.
Dan Sucu, the owner of Mobexpert, stated: “We all want to overcome this misfortune and return to our previous lives. But wanting is not enough! Each of us needs to do something, however little, to make that possible.”
Bitdefender CEO Florin Talpes said that since the beginning of the pandemic, the company has offered free computer security to all healthcare facilities worldwide to ensure their continuous operation and to protect them against unavoidable attacks this time. “We are just one of the many in the civil society to lend a hand to make sure that we overcome this hardship as a community. We have now joined forces with other entrepreneurs to find abroad and import for distribution state-of-the-art protective gear to those who need it badly, those who are on the frontline now: healthcare workers, the police and gendarmerie officers, the army. Shoulder to shoulder,” Talpes also said.
“The ongoing crisis gives us the opportunity to unite in support of those who help us. We are confident that we will get through this, and until then we are trying to help as much as possible the frontline staff who are fighting the pandemic, so that many lives will be saved and the life of the community will return to normal,” stated eMAG CEO Iulian Stanciu.