US-based National Air Cargo (NAC) has donated more than 100,000 masks and gloves for distribution to the frontline health and safety teams and support personnel in Dubai
Jacob Matthew, president of the NAC, which operates its regional operations from the Dubai Airport Free Zone (DAFZA), expressed his overwhelming appreciation for the outstanding services provided by the authorities to the emirates during the lockdown period and for the additional efforts made to normalise the operations.
“We are donating the PPEs as a token of our appreciation for the sacrifices made by Dubai’s finest,” he added.
Jacob Matthew, Alan White, vice-president of NAC, retd major general Mahesh Senanayake and Youssef Beydoun presented the truckload of safety personal protection equipment to major general Abdullah Hussain Ali Khan, brigadier Abdulla Al Raeisi and major Mansour Al Mulla at the Dubai Police Headquarters.
As Dubai resumed private-sector businesses to 100 per cent capacity on 3 June, NAC said Dubai Police and those on the frontlines were playing a pivotal role in the lockdown period to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dubai Police, together with health care staff and municipal bodies, ensured that the pandemic did not spread to a larger population. Since the onset of the global lockdown in March second week, NAC has been instrumental in transporting essential equipment and medicines worldwide.
