![]() ![]() Prior to this, he was chairman and managing partner of SGV & Co. Purisima formerly occupied the Department of Trade and Industry position. P-Noy said his administration is lucky to have Romulo, a senior member among his appointments. He is the only member of the Arroyo Cabinet retained by the Aquino administration.Īs senator, Romulo authored legislations such as The New Central Bank Act, Philippine Veterans Bank Act, The Social Security System Act, The Salary Standardization Law, Vital Organ Donation Act and the Rural Bank Act. He also served as chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in 2007. Romulo, a former Senate Majority leader, first served the government during the time of former President Cory Aquino as part of her economic team. Foreign Affairs Secretary - Alberto Romulo Therefore, I’m very confident his role as the guardian of my back, he’s more than qualified," P-Noy said of his friend Ochoa.Ģ. “He has given me the most sound advice on so many matters pertaining to my work as legislator. However, it was immediately revised by Malacanang the next day to clear some terms in the memo. On his first day as an executive secretary, P-Noy, through Ochoa, ordered his first memorandum circular. The young Ochoa is also the long-time legal counsel of the 15th Philippine President. Jojo's father, former mayor of Pulilan, Bulacan Paquito Ochoa Sr., was an associate of Aquino's father, the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. Executive Secretary - Paquito “Jojo” Ochoa Representatives from ASUS Philippines CSR Team are in coordination with other medical and educational institutions for more possible donations in the near compiled a short background of the appointees as they take oath to serve under P-Noy’s (Aquino earlier said he wanted to be called P-Noy -President Noy) administration:ġ. Hence, we can’t be grateful enough for their donation.” Due to lack thereof, the laptops from ASUS Philippines are used as a stopgap, and a breathing, thinking human being behind each laptop encodes each result. Gerald Tejada, MD, GeneXpert Lab of Lung Center of the Philippines shares, “Ideally, our machines that do the tests should be able to communicate with a laboratory information system so that it can automatically interpret and match the results with the patients. We are not only here to provide innovative technologies but of course, we are also here to support our frontliners.”ĭr. We want to help the community as much as we can. With the help of former DOH Secretary Enrique Ona Jr, my team and I did not hesitate in doing our part and responding to the request of Lung Center of the Philippines. George Su, Country Manager of ASUS Philippines shares, “In ASUS Philippines, we believe that no aid is too small to make a difference. This modest donation was meant to provide a faster and more efficient COVID-19 testing facility, and to ease the workload of the frontliners. In order to scale up the post-testing process and overall testing capacity, ASUS Philippines donated seven (7) ASUS VivoBook S15 laptops, and purchased seven (7) Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 licenses, as well as two (2) Hyper X SSD Hard Drives. Further, the same computers were used to also email the results to patients and other hospitals. MANILA, Philippines, May 07, 2020- In response to the health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, ASUS Philippines and ASUS Foundation have extended immediate aid and robust technical support to the Lung Center of the Philippines.Ĭurrently, the COVID-19 testing laboratory in the said medical institution was limited to the usage of a few desktop computers, which were used to encode 500+ test results per day. ASUS Philippines Donates VivoBook Laptops for Lung Center of the Philippines’ COVID-19 Testing Labs ![]()
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