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On 24th September 2022, AYA Bank rolled out COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign for all staff in Yangon to help our people maintain strong protection from coronavirus disease. The vaccination arrangements were conducted at our head offices, ROWE office in Kyauktadar Township and River View office in Ahlone Township.

As part of the steps we have taken to decrease risk of coronavirus infection, we offered booster shot to all staff who were fully vaccinated for more than six months. AYA Bank further arranged booster shot in the following week for staff who missed the day to ensure the full coverage of our vaccination campaign. The campaign has been organized with the support of SML Medical and Diagnostics Center and more than 1700 staff received their booster dose.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, AYA Bank follows the guidelines of Ministry of Health and place preventive measures at workplace for both offices and branches. Maintaining a safe and healthy working environment for all our staff and customers is our top priority. Vaccination campaign is a critical step in the fight to COVID-19 and our heartfelt thanks to everyone working together to make this happen.

As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, ‘Wear a Mask Campaign’ was organized on 28th January 2022 at AYA Bank’s Head Office in Kyauktadar Township, and near Sule Pagoda in support of COVID-19 protection measures, especially when a new subtype of the Omicron Coronavirus variant is spreading. With the objective of encouraging people to keep practice of wearing mask outdoors, AYA Bank staff distributed face masks packs to the public, who passed by Sule Pagoda and visited AYA Bank. AYA Bank is actively participating not only in the development of health sector in the country but also the social welfare activities by organizing such awareness campaigns.

Ayeyarwady Foundation, set up in 2010 as a Non-Profit Organization (NPO), has been focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which we can do the most good. See below to find out more on activities of Ayeyarwady Foundation in 2020.

Under the management of the Yangon Region Government, Ayeyarwady Foundation is building and donating the Covid-19 test center (Taikkyi), which is located at (43/6) miles on the Yangon-Pyay Road. This center is to test truck drivers for Covid-19 infection and the cost of test center will be contributed by Max Highway Co., Ltd. Upon completion of the construction works on 20 th October, 2020, the test center will be handed over to the Yangon Region Government.

On behalf of Ayeyarwady Foundation, Ms. Eaint Hmu Zaw and Mr. Ye Mann Zaw have contributed 10 million MMK and other necessary supplies to Dr. Win Maw Oo, Head of South Okkalapa Hospital for Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment. Ayeyarwady Foundation has constantly contributing all its resources for the people’s safety and public health during Covid-19 pandemic in Myanmar.

AYA Bank donated additional supplies for a 75-bedded ICU/HDU Unit at the Ayeyarwady Center.

For ICU/HDU, the Ministry of Health and Sports is providing necessary equipment and to fulfill the additional requirement of medicines and equipment as oxygen machines from abroad, AYA Bank has donated One Billion Kyat (MMK 1,000,000,000) and Max Myanmar Company Group has donated Five Hundred Million Kyat (MMK 500,000,000), respectively, to Ayeyarwady Foundation.

The new ICU/HDU is operated and run by the Special Medical Team of (150) personnel comprising of specialists, doctors, nurses, members of Ayeyarwady Foundation and volunteers who all are working closely together to care for the emergency patients. For the next phase, the new 50-bed extension building of Ayeyarwady Center will be opened soon and will be able to accommodate up to 125 ICU/HDU patients.

AYA Bank, AYA SOMPO Insurance and Max Myanmar Group have jointly contributed ‘One Billion Kyat’ (MMK 1,000,000,000) for buildings, infrastructures, medicines, supplies and other necessities for Ayeyarwady Center, which is mainly supported and managed by Ayeyarwady Foundation for receiving and giving treatments to Covid-19 patients.

The Ayeyarwady Center, 400-bedded Covid-19 Treatment Center in Thuwanna, built within (7) days by the Ayeyarwady Foundation with the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Sports, has started receiving and giving treatments to Covid-19 positive patients on the evening of 19th September, 2020.

The Ayeyarwady Center contained treatment units to accommodate (400) patients at the same time, Intensive Care Unit, Duty Room (Control Center), one store building for medical equipment and supplies, bathrooms and restrooms, Examination Rooms, Protective Chambers to take Swab Test, lounges for health workers and volunteers, washing machine, PPE changing rooms and bathrooms with lockers and disinfection systems, Dormitories for about (150) health workers and volunteers, CCTV monitoring system, fire alarm system and fire extinguisher, PA system, QR Code Registration System, facilities for video communications between doctors and patients, large generators for providing sufficient electricity, proper waste disposal system and catering facilities.

The center arranged private rooms with bedding, hospital lockers, tables, chairs, power outlets for convenient use of electronic devices, litter box, plastic box containing 21 kinds of accessories for each individual, drinking water, easily available hot water and cold water. Each dormitory contains small storage cabinets to provide additional daily accessories as needed.

In addition, the management office of the Ayeyarwady Center has been opened in the Myanmar Football Federation building, so that the center's treatment activities can run smoothly, enabling to fulfill requirements on time, receiving and distributing cash and in kind donations.

The Ministry of Health and Sports provided the necessary hospital equipment for the Ayeyarwady Center, and additional requirement of hospital equipment, medicines and other supplies are organized by the Ayeyarwady Foundation with the support of well-wishers who donated cash and in kind.

In an effort to conserve the steady flow free from algae, garbage wastes, unwanted soil residues from forming, Ayeyarwady Foundation have contributed for three consecutive years for the conservation of  Inle Lake, one of top icons for Myanmar tourism and Myanmar environmental image, placed in the Shan Hills of Myanmar.

The foundation had steadily supported a multipurpose amphibian dredger‎ (HITACHI ZX210K-3 Amphibious Excavator) and a professional staff over three years to eliminate common emergence of aquatic weeds, such as water iris, bulrush, tule, cattail, and water-borne algae.

Along with the vision of conservation for Inle Lake, Ayeyarwady Foundation also supported to build connecting roads between thirty-four villages since 2016, which means supporting 800 million MMK for the costs of working process.