SLIC staff donate medical equipment to Lady Ridgeway Hospital on World Children’s Day

Left: Dr. Manilka Brahmana speaks at the event. Right: Lady Ridgeway Hospital Director Dr. A. Danthanarayana, Sri Lanka Insurance CEO Chandana L Aluthgama, HR DGM Rohitha Amarapala, Assistant Manager (Welfare) Vipula Ganewaththe, and Dr. Sarojini Viknarajah Mohan

• High Flow Nasal Oxygen therapy system, Multipara monitor, and infusion pump donated to Ward 3 of Lady Ridgeway Hospital
  
  

Sri Lanka Insurance (SLIC) staff members join hands to contribute towards the effort to donate essential medical equipment to Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, commemorating World Children’s Day.

Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children is a tertiary care children’s hospital with a bed-strength of over 900. It is now considered to be the largest children’s hospital in the world. The hospital serves an average of nearly 2,500 to 3,000 patients a day, out of which approximately 250 to 300 are admitted daily for inward care.

Ward 3 of Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children is a general paediatric ward which caters approximately 80 inward patients daily, with acute and chronic medical conditions. The ward consists of several sections including Emergency Care Unit and a High Dependency Unit to provide care for critically-ill patients.

Understanding the essential requirement of the medical equipment for the ward in order to provide optimum care for the children, SLIC staff members volunteered to contribute to purchase the necessary medical equipment, worth over Rs. 1,200,000.

The High Flow Nasal Oxygen machine can provide oxygen under the higher flow rate to maintain adequate lung ventilation, preventing lung collapse.

Multipara Monitors are widely used in critical care unit as bedside monitors. This monitor allows continuous monitoring of vital parameters such as heart rate, ECG, Pulse Oximetry, blood pressure and temperature. Infusion pumps helps to infuse fluids, medications, and nutrients to patients’ circulation systems with very high accuracy.

The much-needed equipment were donated to Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children on 1 October. SLIC management and staff members, Lady Ridgeway Hospital management and staff members, in-ward patients, and their parents were present at the occasion.