A donation of essential medical supplies worth over Rs. 26 million to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children (LRH) in Colombo, from the Sri Lankan Muslim community in Canada was made recently through Zam Zam Foundation in Sri Lanka in partnership with IDRF, a Canadian NGO based in Toronto.
Lady Ridgeway Hospital Director Dr. G. Wijesuriya accepted the donation from Dr. Aslam Hasana Lebbe and Rimzy Kutubdeen, at the event held at the hospital auditorium on Tuesday (28). Zam Zam Foundation Chairman Mufthi Yoosuff Haniffa together with Ash Sheikh Arkam Nooramith also attended the event.
The donation was made on a request from hospital authorities due to the financial crisis in the island nation which resulted in severe shortages in medicine in public hospitals.
The donations towards the project were primarily from the Sri Lankan ex-pats in Toronto while it is noteworthy to mention that many non-Sri Lankans in Toronto also took part in this worthy cause.
The Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo, which treats thousands of children annually, is the largest tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka exclusively treating and managing children from all parts of the country.
The hospital director in his remarks to the audience mentioned that the donations received from IHRC, through IDRF and Zam Zam Foundation, were sufficient for continuous critical care of children in the hospital for approximately 06 months.
