Ceylinco Life donates specialised Dengue treatment facility to LRH
View(s):A High Dependency and Research Unit to treat children affected by dengue, constructed, furnished and equipped at a cost of Rs 10.5 million has been donated to the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital (LRH) by Ceylinco Life and a group of well-wishers.
The five-bed unit is located at Ward 1, the Professorial Ward managed by the Colombo Medical Faculty with a multi-disciplinary panel of specialist consultants, and meets a critical need at the country’s premier hospital for children, the insurance company said.
The donation of this unit is one of several activities connected with Ceylinco Life’s 25th anniversary to be marked on 14th January 2013.
Serving as a specialised ICU for the management of serious cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever, the new unit is also equipped to be a teaching unit for outstation hospitals via video conference facilities. The intention of the hospital authorities is to initially link hospitals in Trincomalee, Matara, Embilipitiya and Negombo as well as the Paediatric unit of the Rajarata University to the unit. The possibility of linking with a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan is also being studied.
“Being the lead funder and providing leadership for this project has given us a great deal of satisfaction, particularly because it will tangibly help in the battle against Dengue,” Ceylinco Life’s Managing Director and CEO R. Renganathan said. “We deeply appreciate the contributions of our reinsurers and several other generous people towards this initiative. We believe that corporate entities can play a bigger role in improving the quality of healthcare in our country.”
The other contributors to the project were Swiss Re of Switzerland, Munich Re of Germany, Mr. and Mrs. Hemaka Amarasuriya along with Dileeka and Thushan Amarasuriya (in memory of their son and brother Damith Shamindra Amarasuriya), Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Senanayake along with Annika and Alexandria Senanayake (in memory of their son and brother Alastair Yasvanth Senanayake), Ms. Yoko Nonobe and Ceylon Oxygen Ltd.
The new High Dependency Unit of 710 square feet is located behind the main reception counter of Ward 1 of the hospital. It has five ICU type beds with bed head panels, oxygen outlets, multiparameter monitors, bed side cupboards, over bed tables, bystander reclining chairs, medical equipment stands and nurses stools.
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