Dialog Axiata pays tribute to healthcare staff supporting pandemic relief efforts

Supun Weerasinghe, Group Chief Executive, Dialog Axiata PLC exchanging the MOU with Dr. S.H. Munasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of Health. From left: Harsha Samaranayake, Senior General Manager - Brand and Media, Dialog Axiata PLC, Supun Weerasinghe, Group Chief Executive, Dialog Axiata PLC, Dr. S.H. Munasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Asela Gunawardena, Director General of Health Services, and Dr. Anver Hamdani, Director MTS, Coordinating In Charge/Covid-19

Dialog Axiata PLC launched ‘Suwa Diri’, a free communications facility for the healthcare sector, paying tribute to all healthcare staff supporting the national efforts in curbing the pandemic and working tirelessly on the front-line to care for all those affected by COVID-19, while putting their own lives at risk.

The ‘Suwa Diri’ communication facility extended in appreciation of all healthcare staff aims to further support their COVID-19 response efforts while staying connected to their families and loved ones.  The package offers 1,000 D2D minutes, 1,000 D2D SMS, and 6GB anytime Data per month for a period of three months, free of charge, and will be extended to all healthcare staff nominated by the Directors of hospitals island-wide and will be managed by the COVID-19 Coordinating Unit of the Ministry of Health.

Dr. Anver Hamdani, Director Medical Technological Services and Ministry Coordinator in charge of COVID-19 said, “On behalf of the Honourable Minister of Health, Secretary of Health, the Director General of Health Services, Additional Secretaries, and the Deputy Director Generals, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Dialog Axiata who had been a pioneer partner during this pandemic from day one. 

Dialog has been extending their greatest support by providing so much of infrastructure facilities, medical equipment and also coming up with a proposal going beyond supporting and assisting patient care facilities to extending support to the welfare of the healthcare workers through this ‘Suwa Diri’ connectivity bundle, which is a timely initiative to motivate and propagate all our critical healthcare staff who’ve been tirelessly working to curtail this pandemic.”