Singer ‘Thirst for Life’ donates another Dialysis CRRT machine to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital
The donation of a Dialysis CRRT machine to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital was made under the Singer ‘Thirst for Life’ programme recently.
Batticaloa region is greatly affected by kidney disease and patients transferred from the nearby regions too are treated at the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital. As the hospital’s Dialysis CRRT machine alone does not sufficient to meet the demand, a need of another machine has been a long felt necessity.
Among the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects carry out by Singer Sri Lanka, Thirst for Life is a prominent programme. The project aims to provide Dialysis CRRT machines to identified needy hospitals in the country.
Thirst for Life project was started in 2013 donating first two Dialysis CRRT machines to the Polonnaruwa Hospital five years ago. A one Dialysis CRRT machine is cost about Rs. 3 million and apart from the Polonnaruwa Hospital, Batticaloa Teaching Hospital, Colombo National Hospital, Jaffna Hospital, Wathupitiwala Hospital and Medawachchiya Hospital are the other hospitals where Dialysis CRRT machines were set up under the Thirst for Life project.
Customers who purchase water filters from the island wide Singer showrooms contributing for the project as Rs 100 from each water filter is donated to the Thirst for Life project. There are seven such machines so far set up by the project.
The Chief Executive Officer and Head of CSR Committee Singer Group, Mahesh Wijewardena said that they are very happy to include this worthy project among Singer
As a part of recently initiated countrywide CSR initiative aimed at improving hospital facilities in needy areas, staff members of Pan Asia Bank Central region came forward yet again to improve facilities at the Digana Rehabilitation Centre, which treats a large number of patients.
This was the 4th of such projects carried out by Pan Asia Bank and its staff members, where first three programs were held at Horana base hospital, Batticaloa Teaching Hospital and Sirimavo Bandaranaiye Hospital, Peradeniya respectively.
In the 4th project, the bank had arranged to donate various items such as mattresses, toilet seats, wheelchairs etc., based on the needs which were identified during the initial visits to the center. The bank is also planning to carry out few more CSR events as a part of this overall project, catering to the General Hospital Nawalapitiya, Kurunegala Hospital Children’s ward and Padalangoda District Hospital female ward among others in future.