More Than 2,000 Healthcare Front End Liners Avail Of Smc's Toll-Free Rfid Stickers

Following a motion to waive cost fees for all medical practitioners final week, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) reported that or then 2,000 doctors as well as nurses accept already availed of toll-free RFID stickers valid at the STAR tollway, South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), the Skyway system, NAIAX, as well as the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX).

“We started this maiden non alone to present back upwardly for our medical forepart liners as well as authorities precisely too to inspire to a greater extent than businesses to footstep upwardly their responses all the to a greater extent than as well as play their usage inwards fighting the battle against COVID-19,” said SMC president Ramon S. Ang. “We know this is a pocket-size thing, considering the significance of what of our doctors as well as nurses are faced amongst every day, precisely this is 1 way nosotros tin hand the sack serve them every bit they serve our country.”

Ang too assured the populace that all SMC Infrastructure-operated tollways volition hap to endure operational, as well as extend amount back upwardly to the Philippine National Police (PNP) as well as Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) inwards enforcing the Luzon-wide quarantine, spell ensuring the unimpeded menses of essential goods as well as personnel.

In the starting fourth dimension 2 weeks of the ECQ that started final March 15, SMC’s  tollways unit of measurement reported an lxxx per centum drib inwards vehicle book from an average of 300,000 daily, at the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), which connects Metro Manila to Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, as well as Quezon, to every bit far every bit the Bicol region.

Recently, Ang emphasized that the loss of trouble concern as well as profits at this fourth dimension when the province is dealing amongst a global pandemic, is non nearly every bit of import every bit saving lives.

“Saving lives is ever to a greater extent than of import than money. We demand to accept a well for y'all population, cut down the unwrap of individuals who tin hand the sack potentially teach sick as well as die. We tin hand the sack ever rebuild as well as brand coin inwards the process. Once a life is lost, it’s gone forever,” he said.

For now, alone vehicles containing essential goods as well as services are allowed past times the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IAFT-EID) to move on nigh roads, including the SLEX, Skyway, Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR), NAIA Expressway Tollway, as well as the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX).

Apart from providing gratis usage of the superhighway for medical forepart liners, SLEX has too designated priority lanes for medical practitioners as well as vehicles carrying essential goods such every bit medical supplies, medical equipment, food, as well as raw materials for food.