Sandagala School (located near Kurunegala is providing education to 110 students out of which 15 are blind, 75 are deaf and 20 are mentally handicapped.
The principal, Mr. Sumith has been in this school for more than 15 years. He has been a teacher, the deputy principal and now the principal of this same school. There are 19 teachers.
Currently this, school has only one working Braille machine. The principal says it would be wonderful to have 15 Braille machines to be used by each student.
We are pleased to inform you that The DOT Charitable Foundation has donated LKR 775,000.00 worth infant incubator (JW Medical- CHS-I1000) to the Paediatric Unit of Puttalam Base Hospital. The incubator was handed over on Friday the 15th of November 2016 to the team headed by Consultant Paediatrician Dr Dammika Dissanayaka.
Mr Suneth Bandara Manager of Commercial Credit, Puttalam handed over the incubator to the hospital on behalf of The DOT Charitable Foundation.
This donation was possible from our Ladies Spring Night held on 17th September at Cherrybrook Community Centre and through your generous donations.
The Puttalam Base Hospital is the main hospital in Puttalam District of North Western Province. It has an Obstetric Unit as well as a Paediatric Unit including a Neonatal Unit. It services for nearly 7000 deliveries per annum and around 30% of the babies are prematurely born. Currently the hospital is functioning with only 2 working incubators in the Neonatal Unit. Therefore, the hospital was in urgent need of an infant incubator.
We decided to facilitate this urgent donation after the below news item came to our attention.
20th August 2016 from the Hiru News
http://www.hirunews.lk/141049/couple-blames-puttalam-hospital-for-their-newborns-deaths
Thank you all for your great generosity and hard work, as without you this would not have been possible.
Base Hospital Padaviya is full of highly dedicated staff but has limited facilities. The DOT Charitable Foundation donated a Multi Parameter Monitor worth of LKR 139,500.00 (AUD 1,320.00) with adult, paediatric and neonatal NIBP cuffs, adult, paediatric and neonatal spo2 probes and a set of ECG leads to the paediatric ward on the request of Dr Ruwan Dissanayaka, Consultant Paediatrician.
According to Dr Dissanayake currently hospital has only two multipara monitors for paediatric wards. Most of the patients in paediatric wards will get suboptimal care, when a critically ill child is transferred to the tertiary care with one of the monitors. Therefore, the new monitor donated by DOT is an invaluable asset to the Padaviya Base Hospital.
Our special thanks to MR Asoka Sirisena Manager, Commercial Credit, Padaviya who handed over the Monitor to hospital on behalf of The DOT Charitable Foundation.
The funds raised form 2016 raffle and through your generous donations we were able to successfully complete another project.
We sincerely appreciate your support to betterment of sick children in Sri Lanka.
Kandagamaskada Lunugamwehera, Thissamaharama
Tissamaharama is situated in rural south Sri Lanka 264 km from commercial capital of Colombo. Lunugamwehera is a government agricultural development project started 40 years ago in the surrounding areas of Lunigamvehera reservoir. In 2012 total population was 33,664 with 8,858 families. There were 2,997 children of under 4 years of age. In 2002, 33.5 of the population lived under poverty line.
“Singithi Pera Pasala” in Kudagama 2, Dakunuiwura, Lunugamwehera, Thisaramaharama, operate by Mrs D P M A Nilanthi who is a diploma holder of preschool education, is the principal teacher. She runs the school with an assistant teacher. There are about 35 children studding in the centre and all are from low income families. Each child is charged RS 500.00 per month. Due to under privilege status of the area most of the parents are unable to pay the fees. As a result some of the children are not attending the school continuously.
The DOT Charitable foundation intends to pay the school fees for all the children in the centre with the generous help of sponsors.
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