UK-based pharmaceutical major GlaxoSmithKline has joined relief efforts to help those affected by the Tohoku Kanto earthquake and tsunami with various aid donations.
GlaxoSmithKline will donate 200m yen ( 1.5m) to the Japanese Red Cross to support immediate relief efforts, whilst also supplying cold medicines and oral products worth approximately 80m yen ( 600,000) following requests from authorities.
It is the latest in a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis, Amgen, Takeda and Abbott Laboratories, to pledge aid and support to victims of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on 11 March 2011.
The official death toll has now exceeded 9,000, although domestic media has reported that over 20,000 have died or remain unaccounted for.
Source: pharmaceutical-technology
