HNB Assurance joins hands for a healthy cause

HNB Assurance (HNBA) proudly sponsored the Western Provincial Symposium on ‘Awareness for Key Stakeholders: Community Based Strategies for a Quality Childhood’, which was held recently by the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL). This initiative focuses in promoting the concept of healthy living among the general public. This step was taken as part of the college theme for this year ‘Beyond Survival, Investing for Quality Childhood’. The symposium mainly focused on creating awareness among key stakeholders to uplift the livelihoods of children facing various societal and communal issues.

HNBA strongly believes in nurturing and uplifting the lives of children as today’s child is tomorrow’s future. HNBA has proudly unveiled insurance plans such as My Child and Scholar with the vision of shaping up lives of children by ensuring a secure future. This initiative will pay greater attention on stern communal issues such as child abuse, child preventable accidents, quality survival of preterm children, and prevention of non-communicable diseases, quality life and the survival of differently abled children. Addressing the gathering  HNBA Head of Marketing, Dinesh Yogaratnam stated “It is believed that propagating the concept of healthy living could help in enriching the lives of the general public as well as in taking relevant measures to build various strategies to protect children and to promote a healthy lifestyle from birth to retirement”.

The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka is one of the oldest leading professional bodies of public health Specialists in Sri Lanka with expertise in maternal health, child care, control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, public health management, planning and monitoring, environmental and occupational health and many more services related to public health. The President of CCPSL  Dr.Deepika Attygalle reviewed some important health statistics and the positive impact such public awareness programs have created among the general public over the past years. Accordingly, the infant mortality rate has improved from 160 per 1,000 live births in 1992 to 8.8 per 1,000 live births in 2013. In the 1950s, the maternal mortality ratio in Sri Lanka was estimated at between 500 and 600 per 100,000 live births, and  in 2013 national statistics shows its improvement as 32 per 100,000 live births . It is believed that these achievements were mainly due to constant improvements of public health services and the active role in creating public health awareness.

HNB Assurance PLC (HNBA), a subsidiary of the Hatton National Bank PLC., is one of the fastest growing Insurance Companies in Sri Lanka with a network of 54 branches.  HNBA is a Life Insurance company with a rating of A (lka) by Fitch Rating Lanka for “National Insurer Financial Strength Rating” and “National Long- term Rating”. HNB General Insurance, which commenced business in January 2015, specialising in motor and non-motor insurance solutions is a fully owned subsidiary of HNB Assurance PLC.  HNBA is also rated within the Top 100 Brands and Top 100 companies in Sri Lanka by LMD and HNB Assurance has won International awards for Brand Excellence, Digital Marketing and HR Excellence and also won many awards for its Annual Reports at the Award ceremonies organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and SAFA (South Asian Federation of Accountants)