NTB staff donates medical equipment towards COVID response

Official handing over of the medical equipment to S. A. J. Karunathilake, Acting Deputy Director General - Bio Medical Engineering Unit at the Ministry of Health by Priyantha Talwatte, Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nations Trust Bank in the presence of senior officials representing the bank and the ministry

Nations Trust Bank’s employees have come together to donate essential medical equipment towards the national COVID response, by donating a half a day’s 
salary in August. 

The voluntary donation from the Nations Team was handed over to the Bio Medical Engineering Unit at the Ministry of Health on October 29th with the participation of Priyantha Talwatte, Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nations Trust Bank and other bank officials. 

Nations Trust Bank employees contributed their donations to purchase accessories for Multipara Monitorsused to monitor critical patients in Intensive Care Units and Emergency 
Treatment Units. 

This donation will help to replace essential medical accessories that have been worn out due to extensive useduring the peak of the pandemic. 

Commenting on the employees’ donation was Ramanika Unamboowe, Executive Vice President - Human Resources at Nations Trust Bank, “As a responsible corporate citizen, Nations Trust Bank is extremely appreciative of the Nations Team for supporting the health sector through this virtuous cause.

I would also like to thank the Human Resource and Corporate Social Responsibility teams for facilitating the necessary processes to make this donation a success. We hope that this donationwill help revive and enhance the efficiency of medical equipment, enabling our medical heroes to carry out their work unhindered.”

Nations Trust Bank earlier donated a portable ventilator to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Kalubowila and 4500 medical scrub suits to health staff around the island. 

The bank also went beyond banking during the lockdowns of 2020, reaching out to its customers to deliver essential groceries, as well as supporting the community bydistributing ration packs to low-income families and providingaccess to cash through mobile ATMs during a critical time of need.