OPay has donated 300,000 medical face masks to hospitals and healthcare centres in Nigeria as part of it’s contribution to curb the spread against Coronavirus, which is also it’s recently announced ₦50 Million fund set aside to provide medical supplies to frontline healthcare workers as well as relief support for the less privileged during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The top Nigerian financial service technology company had earlier in June donated 100,000 medical face masks to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) as part of the Nigerian Stock Exchange’s #MaskForAllNg campaign which was received by Professor Adetokunbo Fabamwo, the Chief Medical Director of LASUTH.
According to Professor Adetokunbo Fabamwo who expressed his gratitude said, “For public-spirited companies like OPay, who have made this very generous donation, we say thank you. We are very excited, this will go a long way.” 
Ogun State Commisioner of Health, Dr Tomi Coker also expressed his surprise, “We are surprised but grateful for the donation from OPay. This is a huge contribution that will go a long way to support our efforts to protect our frontline health care workers who are daily exposed to the risks that COVID-19 poses”.
The spokesman of fintech company and the country Manager Iniabasi Akpan said, “We at OPay, consider it a duty of ours to support our frontline medical workers. They are our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers working tirelessly during this pandemic, they are the real heroes.
“One effective way to protect ourselves from the virus is with the use of face masks. As the saying goes, “prevention is better than cure”, We hope with this donation we can continue to achieve this.” He said.
