Another CSR project of Lanka IOC

Participants of the event (from left): VP (Fin) Raj Chowdhary, SVP (Engg) Faizan Ahmad, SVP (Fin) Anuj Jain, Company Secretary Rajanie Balakrishnan, SVP (RS & HR) Dhananjay Srivastava, LIOC Managing Director Shyam Bohra, President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena, Dr. Pramitha Ratnayake, Dr. Anurasiri Jayasinghe, SVP (Luves) B.B. Patra and officials of the Presidential Secretariat

Provincial Director of Health Services Dr. Pramitha Ratnayake and Medical Superintendent Dr. Anurasiri Jayasinghe receiving the key to the ambulance from President Maithripala Sirisena and Lanka IOC Managing Director 

Shyam Bohra

Lanka IOC PLC under its banner ‘WE CARE’ donated an ambulance to Medirigiriya Base Hospital, in the Polonnaruwa District on 22 April.

The ambulance was handed over by President Maithripala Sirisena in the presence of the senior officials of Lanka IOC PLC at the Presidential Secretariat, Colombo.

The Provincial Director of Health Services, Medirigiriya Dr. Pramitha Ratnayake along with Medical Superintendent Dr. Anurasiri Jayasinghe received the ambulance on behalf of the health authorities.  

Dr. Pramitha Ratnayake stated that while the base hospital at Medirigiriya provides treatment for various illnesses, an urgent need has arisen to treat the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients, which has increased in numbers in the recent past. She further mentioned that the presence of this ambulance will ease their task in providing quick service to the critical patients not only from the hospital but also in the surrounding area – especially to transport the patients for dialysis treatment. On behalf of the health authorities she thanked Lanka IOC PLC for the donation of this ambulance to the Polonnaruwa District.

Lanka IOC Managing Director Shyam Bohra in his brief speech at the event said, “As a socially responsible corporate citizen of Sri Lanka, Lanka IOC believes that profitable growth of a company depends on the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the communities across the island nation. Lanka IOC’s CSR initiatives stem from this simple yet strong belief that the business of business should not be about money but also about responsibility. This is the third ambulance that Lanka IOC has donated to the people of this country – walking the talk ‘WE CARE’. 

In addition to the above, the company has undertaken the following corporate responsibility program in the financial year 2015-16:

n    Another ambulance to the Lihiniyagama Hospital in the Ampara District

n    English education for 1,500 children from underprivileged families in the Colombo District

n    Renovation of primary health care centre in Jaffna

n    English education for 400 children in the Dehiaththakandiya zonal division schools

n    Free Health Screening Camps providing free medicine, spectacles and cataract surgery for the needy. Approximately 6,000 people have benefitted from the above camps held in different districts.

n    City Clean Up project under the Ministry of Social Welfare