ComBank donates equipment to Matara General Hospital
The District General Hospital Matara is the latest recipient of
essential medical equipment from the Commercial Bank of Ceylon under the
Bank’s multifaceted corporate social responsibility programme.
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Commercial Bank’s Deputy General Manager, – Marketing Hasrath
Munasinghe (second left) presents the donation to the Director
of the General Hospital Matara Dr. M. A. S. C.
Samarakoon in the presence of Priyanthi Perera, Coordinator of
the Commercial Bank's CSR Trust, the Hospital’s Consultant VP
Dr. Wimalasiri Uluwattage, Nursing Officer, Ashok Kumara and
Matron A. G. S. Gunasekara. |
The Bank has presented the hospital with a Patient Monitor and
pledged to provide five Pulse Oxymeters, another Patient Monitor and
Syringe Pumps to address the urgent needs of the institution.
The donation coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Commercial
Bank’s Matara branch, which commenced operations on January 24, 1973 as
the seventh branch in a network that now comprises of 227 service points
in Sri Lanka.
The funds for the donation were provided by the Commercial Bank’s CSR
Trust. In December 2012, Commercial Bank donated essential equipment and
supplies to four hospitals, the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital in
Colombo, the Elpitiya Base Hospital, the District Hospital Gampaha and
the Base Hospital, Dambadeniya.
In earlier projects, the Bank had donated critical care equipment to
the Lady Ridgeway Hospital and Jaffna Teaching Hospital and made
substantial monetary contributions to repair wards at several other
hospitals.
Commercial Bank’s flagship CSR initiative is in the sphere of IT
Education, under which the Bank has donated fully-equipped and furnished
computer laboratories to more than 60 schools and institutions to date,
benefitting more than 30,000 students. |
