8 July 2016 12:00 am
Under its ‘We Care’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) project, Lanka IOC held a free medical camp in association with Helpage Sri Lanka recently, at
the petrol shed at No: 107, Negombo Road, Peliyagoda.
Three hundred and eighty one elders of the area benefitted this project. All of them were screened for various illnesses. Three hundred and two elders were screened for eye-related issues and 79 for other.
Bifocal spectacles will be issued to 234 elders, reading glasses for two elders. Eight elders were detected with cataract and the surgeries will be done at the Helpage Sri Lanka hospital in Wellawatte.
The registration of the first person was done by Lanka IOC PLC Managing Director together with Megapolis and Western Development Deputy Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna.