Global research-based pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), through the PHAP Cares Foundation, recently donated 27,000 boxes of MSD's Simvastatin to the UP-PGH Department of Medicine for the benefit of its indigent patients with hypercholesterolemia or high cholesterol.

The donation was part of MSD’s mission of Pagpapahalaga sa Kapwa to bring medicines to people who need them. Locally, the Company has been partnering with communities and non-governmental agencies to make medicines and vaccines more accessible to Filipinos. 

Shown in photo during the turnover ceremony are (L-R): MSD medical director Dr. Butch Recto, MSD business unit director Dr. Beaver Tamesis, UP-PGH Department of Medicine chairperson Dr. Agnes Mejia, MSD external affairs director Karen Villanueva, and UP-PGH Dept. of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology senior fellow Dr. Shiela Lim.