The GSK's medicine bank for hardship relief programme will run for three years until 2017. Key activities of the initiative include:
Access to medicines: On RCHB's request, GSK will donate health-related products such as solutions for allergic dermatitis and oral health care products for needy people in remote areas, while providing physicians, pharmacists and GSK employees who have volunteered to work with the RCHB to help disaster victims and needy people.
Engaging with people: GSK will work to identify what types of basic health care and hardship relief information people in particular areas really need and, in collaboration with the RCHB, send a team of GSK doctors, pharmacists and volunteer employees to visit areas and provide help. Health care knowledge and relief assistance information will be disseminated.
Lt-General Dr Amnat Baelee, director of the Relief and Community Health Bureau (RCHB), said, "Our mission is to provide relief services for victims of disasters, underprivileged people and those who live in remote areas. The GSK medicine bank for hardship relief programme marks a collaborative effort with a corporation that realises the importance of assisting disaster affected and underprivileged people.
"The programme will be a major contribution to driving our activities in areas such as hardship relief, public health, first-aid education, health care communication and being a source of health care information.
"This will encourage Thai people to be healthy with an improved quality of life in accordance with the RCHB's philosophy of addressing health-related problems," he said.