Elephant House-sponsors Devinuwara free health camp
A free health camp held on Saturday, January 5, 2013, in Devinuwara,
Matara, has drawn 2,000 attendees. Partnered by Elephant House, this was
the 500th free health camp organised by Dr. Lakshman Weerasena, who had
pioneered a series of island-wide free health camps, which first started
with Mahiyanganaya on December 15, 1991. Further, visitors to this event
received drugs and medical equipment worth Rs. 2 million, as well as 500
free pairs of spectacles. In addition, attendees also accessed doctors
representing up to 30 medical specialties.
To celebrate this programme’s 500th free health camp milestone,
Elephant House sponsored a stall from which it treated all 2,000
attendees to free Elephant House LITE sugar-free ice cream, in both
chocolate and vanilla flavours, which was the only ice cream on offer at
the event, due to it being widely regarded as the only locally available
healthy ice cream dessert.
Meanwhile, this 500th milestone event also featured a number of
notable attendees including Chamal Rajapaksa, the Speaker of the
Parliament of Sri Lanka, as well as ministers, Hon. Lakshman Yapa
Abeygunawardena and Mervyn Silva. Commenting on the event, Neil
Samarasinghe, Head of Frozen Confectionary at Ceylon Cold Stores
(Elephant House) and Vice President of John Keells Holdings, said: “For
us, commemorating Dr. Weerasena’s 500th free health camp milestone was
the perfect opportunity to, once again, show potential customers that
the Elephant House LITE sugar-free ice cream range was keeping up with
their needs. In this case, we are offering them no less than a healthy
alternative that continues allowing them to enjoy the goodness of ice
cream.” |