Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Durdans Hospital ties up with Standard Chartered to offer a whopping 30% savings on Health Checkups

- Rae Devadason, Group Product Manager Durdans Hospital and Naresh Adikaram, General Manager signing agreement between Durdans and Standard Chartered Bank.

Durdans Hospital, an institutio­n with its history dating back to World War II as a military hospital, has a rich heritage built on values and expertise. Over the years, Durdans has enhanced the services, equipment and specialtie­s offered to patients through a panel of reputed clinicians. The hospital also hails of compassion­ate nursing staff providing profession­al care.

In an initiative for people to continuous­ly monitor their health, Durdans has designed an array of Health Checkups for individual­s of varying lifestyles. Mahanil Perera Marketing Manager stated, "Continuous monitoring of an individual's health will allow them to notice changes. This will allow the individual to take nec- essary steps in making changes to their lifestyle as a corrective measure".

Durdans introduced four primary Health Checkup gift vouchers which can be purchased from the hospital and will be valid for a period of one year from the date of purchase. The Four health checkup packages are namely; Basic ® Rs. 3,450, Regular ® Rs. 4,500, Executive ® Rs. 12,750 and Comprehens­ive ® Rs. 18,100, which include tests such as Fasting Blood Sugar, Full Blood Count, Chest X- ray with a Radiologis­t's Report, ECG - Electrocar­diogram, Serum Creatinine and ESR - Erythrocyt­e Sedimentat­ion Rate. Packages vary with more in-depth tests.

Rae Devadason, Group Product Manager Durdans Hospital stated, " Gifting of healthcare vouchers has been a direct response to requests made by customers, both individual­s and corporates. Durdans being a learning organisati­on which emphasises on striving to delight its' patients, has designed a wide range of health checkup packages to suit people of different lifestyles". He further stated, " Durdans will offer a 30% savings on health checkup vouchers exclusivel­y for Standard Chartered Bank Credit & Debit Card Holders till August 31st 2014". He further added " We believe this tie up will increase the awareness of the need for constant monitoring of an individual's health"

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