Ceylinco Life to donate High Dependency Unit to National Hospital
Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:00
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Ceylinco Life has undertaken the task to build and equip a surgical High Dependency Unit for Ward 6A of the Professorial Surgical Unit of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) as a CSR initiative.
The unit will provide intensive post-operative care to patients who undergo complex gastrointestinal, hepato-pancreatico-biliary and other general surgical procedures.
The need for such a unit has arisen as a result of the demand for beds at the six-bed surgical ICU of the National Hospital, which caters to patients from general and other surgical specialties and units. Ceylinco Life’s response followed a request made by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Colombo Prof. Rohan Jayasekara to the company.
The dedicated surgical high dependency unit to be constructed and donated by Ceylinco Life will have two ICU beds with their own multi parameter monitors, syringe pumps, infusion pumps and suction apparatus, and its own oxygen supply and oxygen cylinder bank. The company will also bear the cost of structural changes required to isolate an area within the ward for the new unit and to ensure its sterility.
To be completed and handed over in December
An agreement covering the undertaking by Ceylinco Life was signed recently by the company’s Director/Deputy CEO Thushara Ranasinghe and Prof. Jayasekara. The new High Dependency Unit is expected to be completed and handed over in December this year.
“It is our hope that this unit will contribute to a significant improvement in the quality of post-operative care at this ward, while easing some of the pressure on the National Hospital’s Surgical ICU,” Ranasinghe said. “As a company that has a close and long term engagement with the community, Ceylinco Life feels privileged to be able to help.”
This is the second unit of this nature donated by Ceylinco Life to the Professorial Ward of the Faculty of Medicine in the past one year. In December 2012, the company and a group of well-wishers donated a sophisticated High Dependency & Research Unit exclusively for the treatment of children afflicted by Dengue to the Paediatric Professorial Ward I of the Faculty of Medicine at Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital (LRH).
Sri Lanka’s life insurance leader for the past nine years, Ceylinco Life is responsible for a series of multi-faceted community programs conducted annually in many parts of Sri Lanka. The company’s flagship project ‘Waidya Hamuwa’ – a series of free medical camps conducted by teams of travelling doctors – has directly interacted with, and touched the lives of more than 121,000 people to date.
In the area of education, Ceylinco Life is committed to supporting the development of educational infrastructure for underprivileged schools in rural areas. This consists principally of building classroom blocks for schools and providing water supply facilities to those in need. The company has donated classrooms to more than 50 schools under this program.
