Dialog Axiata PLC in less than a month concluded the immediate civil reconstruction and provision of equipment to set up an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Negombo District General Hospital.
This concludes the first step taken in the pledged Rs. 200 million towards the urgently needed ICU capacity development in hospitals selected by the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services (MOH) during the pandemic.
The civil re-construction and critical ICU development funded entirely by Dialog Axiata established a fully functional ICU complex with a Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) to accommodate 10 new beds - complete with state-of-the-art ICU equipment advancing the hospital’s capability to admit more patients.
Minister of Health and Indigenous Medical Services, Pavithra Wanniarachchi said, “Much like the lifesaving efforts practiced during the pandemic, we have a responsibility to save the public from common acute illnesses such as Dengue fever, now a long-term possibility with the completion of the ICU complex.”Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata, Supun Weerasinghe said, “The completion of this project, which is a part of the larger mission of the Rs. 200 million pledged by Dialog to support and expand the country’s healthcare systems, significantly increased accessibility to intensive care to the public, enabling not only the treatment of patients in a time of crisis but also continues to support all other patients in need of critical care, in the long-term.”
Secretary to the Ministry, Dr. S. H. Munasinghe also spoke.