HNB assists Helpage Medical camps to restore vision of underprivileged
Sri Lanka’s fastest growing state bank, Hatton National Bank (HNB) has extended yet another CSR initiative towards Helpage Sri Lanka (HASL) to restore the vision of underprivileged senior citizens.
Accordingly, ELCEE Club of the Centralised Trade Processing Division, HNB, Colombo granted a financial donation to restore the vision of 225 needy senior citizens living at Magammana rural village in the Homagama Divisional Secretariat.
HNB, Business Development (Trade) Assistant Manager Shyam De Silva made the donation to perform 78 medical screenings, 79 eye screenings, 18 cataract surgeries and also to provide 50 bifocal spectacles.
All cataract surgeries are performed free of charge at the Helpage Eye Hospital, Wellawatta.
Helpage Sri Lanka which is the sister organisation of Helpage International UK, is a non-profit charitable organisation that works to resolve the social, medical and low vision issues faced by destitute Sri Lankan elderly citizens.
De Silva highlighted that HNB has always been helping needy citizens in the country to improve their health conditions and social activities through their CSR initiative.
Helpage Executive Director Samantha Liyanawaduge highly admired the HNB for making this invaluable donation to improve the vision of a needy section in our society.
He said there is a marked improvement in donations made by people and also private organisations towards the free cataract surgery programme which has been conducted by Helpage during the past 30 years.
Liyanawaduge further said that Helpage expects more and more similar donations from prospective donors to fund towards the Helpage free cataract surgery programme to improve the living standards of the Senior Citizens of Sri Lanka.
The Helpage Mobile Medical team comprised with a Doctor, Optometrist and a nurse.