Pictured here are representatives of Ceylinco Life and the Teaching Hospital Ratnapura at the presentation of the equipment. From left: Ceylinco Life’s Head of Branch – Ratnapura 06 I. M. A. S. Bandara, Assistant Regional Sales Manager Buddhika Wickramasinghe, Manager Business Development Thushara Bandara, General Manager – Business Development Joe Jayawardhana, Hospital Director Dr. Anoja Rodrigo and Consultant ENT Surgeon Dr. Madhawika Dayarathna, Ceylinco Life’s Agency Supervisor Annesly Rohitha, Head of Branch – Ratnapura 02 Chinthaka Rohana and Head of Branch – Ratnapura 03 Harshana Sampath

Ceylinco Life recently donated High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) equipment to the Ratnapura Teaching Hospital under an on-going initiative to provide essential equipment to hospitals treating patients with respiratory failure. 

The High Flow Nasal Cannula apparatus is used in the treatment of patients who require oxygen via non-invasive ventilators, and to bridge patients being weaned from invasive ventilation.

Ceylinco Life has already donated similar equipment to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital Kalubowila, the Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, the Kantale Base Hospital,the Teaching Hospital Kuliyapitiya, the District General Hospital, Matale and the Matara District General Hospital.

A longstanding benefactor of government hospitals, Ceylinco Life has also built, equipped, and donated High Dependency Units (HDUs) to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Kalubowila, the National Hospital, Colombo, the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, Jaffna Teaching Hospitaland the Kandy Teaching Hospital. 

HDUs are needed to upgrade a patient from normal care or as a step down from intensive care, helping release beds in the intensive care units. These units are used for post-surgery care, before transferring patients to the wards, or to treat an intensive disease.