Boehringer Ingelheim Donates Medicines

RIDGEFIELD — Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, Inc has donated pharmaceutical medicines to the state of Florida’s hurricane relief efforts as a means of helping the many thousands of citizens whose lives have been impacted by recent storms there.

At the request of the Florida Department of Health, the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, Inc has shipped a total of 1,300 units of Combivent® (ipratropium bromide and albuterol sulfate) and 240 bottles of 100 mg FLOMAX® (tamsulosin hydrochloride) to emergency clinics set up in at least three relief centers across Florida.

“We are deeply concerned about the health and well-being of patients throughout Florida in their time of need,” said Ralph Craft, president of the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation. “By making this donation of Combivent and Flomax, we hope to provide some measure of relief to those who may not otherwise have a way of obtaining these products because of the damage caused by Hurricane Charlie. We are pleased to work with the professionals of Cardinal Health’s Lakeland Customer Care Center and be a part of the effort to help.”

The Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, Inc is an independent, charitable organization established in 2001 by the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation. The foundation’s mission is to improve lives through innovative philanthropic contributions and donations of health care products and resources. Based in Ridgefield, Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation is the US headquarters to seven subsidiaries and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies based in Ingelheim, Germany.