CCMC, 18 schools to get laboratory, science equipment from Japanese firm

CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu City Medical Center and 18 high schools in Cebu City will be receiving P100,000 worth of laboratory and science equipment each from Toyoflex Foundation.

The donation is part of the company's corporate social responsibility to its host community. Toyoflex is owned by Japanese national Takashi Tanaka.

Aside from laboratory equipment, Toyoflex will also provide a high precision microscope to CCMC. The laboratory equipment will both benefit the hospital and nurs-ing students of CCMC.

The other schools, meanwhile, will get science equipment such as basic laboratory apparatuses and skeleton models, among others. They will also benefit from the company's language education service should they get the chance to work as nurses in Japan.

Toyoflex already made donations to eight high schools in the province and decided to expand its reach to the city after talks with Mayor Michael Rama.

The company is currently financing the schooling of some 60 students enrolled in one of the colleges in the city. Tanaka said they might expand to other colleges.

"I hope that (the) Cebu City government and the Cebu City Medical Center will take advantage of the foundations and develop nurses as many as possible to commu-nicate with Japanese," Tanaka said.

Toyoflex Cebu Corporation is a world-leading manufacturer of miniature wire ropes. Its production arm was established at the Mactan Export Processing Zone in Lapu-Lapu City in 1996.  (FREEMAN)