
The Industrial Financial institution of Ceylon lately handed over Wards No. 03 and 04 of the De Soysa Hospital for Ladies, after the completion of a complete renovation undertaking launched in March this 12 months to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
Wards 03 and 04 deal with a considerable share of the hospital’s affected person load, and account for roughly 2,500 to three,000 deliveries and 4,000 to five,000 admissions yearly. Their refurbishment was designed to considerably improve affected person care, security and luxury, and instantly profit 1000’s of moms and newborns.
5 Trustees of the Industrial Financial institution’s Company Social Accountability Belief participated within the formal handing over of the refurbished wards to the hospital authorities. They have been Mr Sharhan Muhseen, the Financial institution’s Chairman, Mr Raja Senanayake, Deputy Chairman, Mr Sanath Manatunge, Managing Director/CEO, Mr Hasrath Munasinghe, Chief Working Officer, and Mr Prasanna Indrajith, Chief Monetary Officer.
Established in 1879, the De Soysa Hospital for Ladies is the primary maternity hospital in Sri Lanka and the second oldest in Asia and is credited with, amongst others, performing the nation’s first caesarean part in 1905 and establishing one in every of its earliest organised working theatres in 1907.
The Industrial Financial institution’s Company Social Accountability Belief, via which this undertaking was applied, has by way of its healthcare-related interventions supported greater than 100 authorities hospitals with important gear and infrastructure, contributed to emergency medical providers via the ‘Undertake an Ambulance’ initiative, and applied focused neighborhood well being interventions resembling water storage options for households affected by kidney illness.
Pictured listed here are the representatives of the Financial institution and senior officers of the hospital on the ceremonial handing over of the refurbished ward.