Ceylinco Life donates Paediatric Dengue High Dependency Unit to Jaffna Hospital
View(s):Ceylinco Life has donated a fully-equipped and furnished Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that will serve as a dedicated Dengue High Dependency ward for children at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
At the official opening.
This is the third ward of its kind donated by the life insurance leader to a state hospital in Sri Lanka, the company said.
The new Dengue High Dependency Unit of 650 square feet is located within Ward 11, the Professorial Paediatric unit of the hospital. It comprises of five ICU beds, each allocated an area of 130 square feet. The beds are equipped with bed-head panels with wall oxygen, bedside cupboards, over-bed tables, saline stands and bystander reclining chairs.
The unit is also equipped with five multi-parameter monitors with a centralised system, five infusion pumps, five syringe pumps, three
Picture shows the new Paediatric Dengue High Dependency Unit donated by Ceylinco Life
portable suction apparatus units and an air purifying unit.
The completed unit was formally handed over to the hospital by a team of senior representatives of Ceylinco Life led by the company’s Managing Director/CEO R. Renganathan.
Dr Geetanjali Sathiadas, Head/Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, and the Consultant Paediatrician at the Professorial Paediatrics Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Jaffna, said, “The generosity and good corporate citizenship of Ceylinco Life in donating this invaluable facility to our hospital will be greatly appreciated by the people of Jaffna. It could make a very significant difference in aiding the recovery of children afflicted with dengue”.