Northern hospitals receive a Pears Safe Touch

Pears Safe Hands Fund, a community project by Unilever Sri Lanka has renovated the paediatric wards of the Cheddikulam and Vavuniya Hospitals at a cost of Rs. 5.4 million.

The two wards were handed over to the hospital authorities recently.

With the war coming to an end thousands of people are being resettled in newly opened areas creating an immediate need for better health facilities.

Pears together with the college of paediatricians supported the project.

The Pears Safe Hands Fund was established in 2002 as a part of its commitment toward caring and nurturing the children of Sri Lanka.

As such 25 cents from each Pears product sold is channelled to the fund to be utilised to renovate and refurbish and equip maternity and paediatric wards in needy hospitals around the country.

The initial project by the Pears Safe Hands Fund was the refurbishment of the Emergency Treatment Centre and Nebulisation Unit of the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital in Colombo. Since then, 14 similar projects have been carried out around the country, including the Jaffna teaching hospital, Puttlam base hospital as well as several Tsunami affected hospitals such as Habaraduwa and Ahangama hospitals.

The work carried out by the Pears Safe Hands project includes renovation of maternity and children's wards, children's clinics, provision of required medical equipment and play areas to ensure that our children and mothers have access to the best possible healthcare facilities.

Furthermore, these hospitals that are being given a new lease of life under Pears Safe Hands project are carefully selected under the guidance of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians.

So far Rs. 27.5 million have been invested through the Pears Safe Hands Fund to uplift the healthcare standards in the country thereby touching over one million lives.