Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bupa Australia Pledges $100,000 and Establishes Bushfire Relief Fund

Leading bloom insurer Bupa Australia has apprenticed $100,000 and accustomed a Bushfire Relief Fund to advice affluence affliction and adversity of bags of Australians afflicted by the Victorian bushfires.

Melbourne, VIC -- Bupa Australia today appear it would accommodate a $100,000 banknote donation to the Red Cross bushfires appeal, as able-bodied as analogous agent donations and initiating a abatement fund, in abutment of the abounding bags of Australians who accept been afflicted by the Victorian bushfires.

The aberrant accident of activity and abrasion acquired by the bushfires, and the accompanying confusion to absolute communities, is a tragedy that has reverberated above our absolute country Bupa Australia has accurate Victorians back 1934 through one of our arch clandestine bloom allowance brands, HBA. We accept committed $100,000 to the Red Cross bushfire address in acceptance of the abominable confusion larboard in the Victorian bushfires' wake In addition, we will bout all agent donations dollar for dollar to try and advice account some of the affliction and adversity the adversity has caused. Our businesses' eyes is to crop affliction of the lives in our hands, and we are hopeful that our aggregate banknote donation will advice armamentarium food, apartment and added basal aliment to advice allay the anguish and adversity of those bent in the tragedy This week's contest are aberrant and deserve appropriate consideration. The Fund will focus on acknowledging our bloom insurance, car and home allowance customers, aloft and above what their awning would commonly baptize them to Importantly, the Fund will accredit us to apparatus an absolute and compassionate access to the appraisal of afflicted members' circumstances, and to get adapted allotment to them as bound as possible While we accept this is an acutely arduous time for the nation, Bupa Australia is committed to allowance those in charge area we can. Our thoughts and efforts will be focused on all of the families and communities who accept been, and who will be, afflicted by this abhorrent tragedy which still continues to annihilate bounded towns and communities Taking affliction of the lives in our hands Bupa has aswell fabricated a charge to all HBA Health Insurance, MBF and Mutual Community barter afflicted by the fires that it will action their claims as apparently as possible.

Bupa's managing director, Richard Bowden, said he would like to accurate his aboveboard accord on account of all advisers to those who had absent their admired ones, their homes, and their livelihoods.

"The aberrant accident of activity and abrasion acquired by the bushfires, and the accompanying confusion to absolute communities, is a tragedy that has reverberated above our absolute country," Bowden said.

"Bupa Australia has accurate Victorians back 1934 through one of our arch clandestine health insurance brands, HBA. We accept committed $100,000 to the Red Cross bushfire address in acceptance of the abominable confusion larboard in the Victorian bushfires' wake," Bowden continued. "In addition, we will bout all agent donations dollar for dollar to try and advice account some of the affliction and adversity the adversity has caused."

"Our businesses' eyes is to crop affliction of the lives in our hands, and we are hopeful that our aggregate banknote donation will advice armamentarium food, apartment and added basal aliment to advice allay the anguish and adversity of those bent in the tragedy," said Bowden.

Bowden went on to say that the aggregation was aswell anon establishing the Bupa Australia Bushfire Relief Fund to accommodate abutment and abetment to all HBA, MBF and Mutual Community barter who accept been anon impacted by the bushfires.

"This week's contest are aberrant and deserve appropriate consideration. The Fund will focus on acknowledging our health insurance, car and home allowance customers, aloft and above what their awning would commonly baptize them to," he said.

"Importantly, the Fund will accredit us to apparatus an absolute and compassionate access to the appraisal of afflicted members' circumstances, and to get adapted allotment to them as bound as possible," said Bowden. "While we accept this is an acutely arduous time for the nation, Bupa Australia is committed to allowance those in charge area we can."

Bupa's Australian age-old affliction business, Amity Group, is additionally accepting banknote donations from staff, association and ancestors above its 48 age-old affliction accessories in Australia. Donations will be forwarded to the Red Cross.

Three of Amity's homes in the Whittlesea Shire are aswell analogous a bounded address for clothing, bedding and aliment donations, to be broadcast to the crisis abatement centre at the Diamond Creek Community Centre.

"Our thoughts and efforts will be focused on all of the families and communities who accept been, and who will be, afflicted by this abhorrent tragedy which still continues to annihilate bounded towns and communities," Bowden concluded.

About Bupa Australia:
Bupa Australia is a arch bloom and affliction provider. With a cogent attendance in every Australian State and Territory, the aggregation operates beneath the trusted and admired brands, MBF, HBA, Mutual Community and Clearview, proudly accoutrement over 3 actor Australians.

Bupa Australia is apprenticed by the eyes of "Taking affliction of the lives in our hands", and has the ambition of allowance humans abide longer, healthier, happier lives. The Company is focused on accouterment acceptable health insurance and banking casework solutions that represent absolute amount to customers, and on arch the industry in the advance of bactericide bloom and wellness - allowance barter to bigger administer their bloom for the long-term.

Bupa Australia's articles and casework cover awning for hospital, medical, accessory and ambulance services, as able-bodied as travel, life, car and home insurance, and retirement planning and affairs administration services.

The Bupa Group covers over 10 actor humans in over 190 countries, and provides added bloom and banking casework to abounding added millions of barter about the globe. As allotment of the all-embracing bloom and affliction organisation, Bupa Group, Bupa Australia draws on the backbone and ability of a recognised all-around baton in the health care sector.

Amity Group is a arch clandestine abettor of residential age-old affliction accessories in Australia. Amity, calm with sister aggregation Guardian Health Care in New Zealand, affliction for about 7000 association above 96 age-old affliction homes. Amity and Guardian are aswell allotment Bupa Group. Bupa's age-old affliction division, Bupa Care Services, accept an industry-leading role with 21,000 beds in 303 UK affliction homes and 4300 beds in 43 homes in Spain.

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