Ceylinco Life donates ventilators to national effort to combat COVID-19

Life insurance leader Ceylinco Life has donated two high-end non-invasive ventilators to the government to support efforts to treat people infected by COVID-19.

The two Resmed Stellar 100 ventilators from Australia were presented to Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, who heads the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak, at Army Headquarters on Thursday.

In a letter accompanying the donation, Ceylinco Life Chairman R. Renganathan said the company hopes the equipment will help the government eradicate the coronavirus in Sri Lanka.

This is the latest in a series of donations by Ceylinco Life of essential equipment and infrastructure facilities to government medical institutions. Earlier this year the company donated a fully-renovated and re-equipped Day Chemotherapy Unit for the treatment of cancer patients to the Trincomalee General Hospital and had previously donated fully-equipped and furnished High Dependency Units (HDUs) to five government hospitals – the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH), the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, the Jaffna Teaching Hospital, the Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Kalubowila and the Kandy Teaching Hospital, the company said in a media release.