Ceylinco Life donates High Dependency Unit to National Hospital
Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:05
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A surgical High Dependency Unit constructed, furnished and equipped by Ceylinco Life was formally donated to Ward 6A of the Professorial Surgical Unit of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) recently, as part of the life insurance leader’s continuing commitment to the healthcare sector.
This unit which was donated inresponse to a request made by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colombo Prof. Rohan Jayasekara, is equipped with two ICU beds with their own multi parameter monitors, syringe pumps, infusion pumps and suction apparatus, anair purifierand its own oxygen supply and oxygen cylinder bank. It provides intensive post-operative care to patients who undergo complex gastrointestinal, hepato-pancreatico-biliary and other general surgical procedures.
Speaking at ceremonial opening of the new unit, Ceylinco Life Managing Director and CEO R. Renganathan said: “While we are fortunate that the Government provides free healthcare to the citizens of Sri Lanka, it is the duty of corporate entities to contribute to supplement these services. After all, we earn our profits from the citizens of Sri Lanka.”
He said Ceylinco Life as a responsible corporate citizen will continue to contribute to enhance facilities at government hospitals in Sri Lanka.
National Hospital of Sri Lanka Director Dr. Anil Jasingha explained that the High Dependency Unit concept is very useful because it has a two-fold benefit. An HDU is used to upgrade a patient from normal care and as a step down from intensive care, helping release beds in the intensive care units, he said.
Prof. Rohan Jayasekara thanked Ceylinco Life for funding this project as well as for the support it gave last year to construct a High Dependency & Research Unit at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital.
Colombo University Senior Professor of Surgery and Head of the Surgical Department of the Faculty of Medicine Professor Nandadeva Samarasekara expressed his gratitude to Ceylinco Life for its prompt response to the request for a High Dependency Unit and for its efficiency in completing the project in less than three months. He said the new HDU helps deliver intensive care to a group of less privileged people in the country.
This is the second unit of this nature donated by Ceylinco Life to the Professorial Wards of the Faculty of Medicine. 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).
