Promoting the Rotary Medical Projects for the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka at the Minto Dinner Dance 2014.

1. Rotary Medical Projects
North & Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka
Haran Ramachandran
18 – October – 2014 @ Annual Minto Dinner Dance

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What is Rotary?

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What is Rotary?
Rotary ……

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What is Rotary?
How do we achieve
Simply by turning conversations into actions.
Once a week groups of people like you get together and help others in the
wider community.
Its exciting.
Its knowing you are really making a difference

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What is Rotary?

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Ophthalmology Department – Jaffna Hospital Sri Lanka
International Project
 Delivers the eye care services to around 650,000 people
Referral centre for all Northern Province Districts. (NP population is around
1.3 million)
There are only 2 eye surgeons in NP- attached Jaffna.
Develop a good eye care network system in North.
The hospital is short of the following equipment’s
 YAG laser (Zesis)
 A & B scan with Pachymetry (3 in 1) (NIDEK)
 Auto refactor with Keratometry (Topcon)
 Portable Keratometry (NIDEK)
 Slit-lamp (Topcon)

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Ophthalmology Department – Jaffna Hospital Sri Lanka
Result
Within one month of the installation of the new equipment’s, 135 patients
were operated
 The transfer to other hospitals such as Anuradapura, Colombo & Kandy, has
been reduced by 100%.
“It was very heartening to note that 75 operations have been performed in
just 3 weeks, in the newly equipped Eye Hospital in Jaffna.” – Dr Malaravan
The donors from Australia in particular will be delighted to hear this news.

8. How you can Engage Rotary
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How you can Engage Rotary
• Contact a Rotary club near you – there would be a club around
the corner from your place.
• Club finder thru Rotary.org
• visit www.rotary.org.au
• We are on Social Media / Web
• Ask Keith or myself for more information

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Why are we here?

11. Medical Projects – Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka
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Identified Projects
Funding of medical equipment for Aaraiyampathy Hospital
Refurbishment of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Mallavi Base Hospital
Renovation of the Emergency Treatment Unit at Delft District Hospital and
provision of essential medical equipment
Supply of urgent and essential medical equipment to hospitals in Vanni
region

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Funding of medical equipment for Arayampathy Hospital
Head
Manmunai Pattu divisional secretariat area.
This is the district hospital.
About 10km from Batticoloa Teaching Hospital.
6 doctors are working at this district hospital.
A population of 32000 people depend of this hospital for their medical needs.
The Out Patient Department (OPD) and medical, paediatric and obstetrics
clinic are functioning at it’s best with available facilities.
The rest of the patients are usually transferred to Batticoloa Teaching
Hospital.

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Why do we need to support this hospital?
Local Community
•The income distribution of the population of Manmunai Pattu divisional
secretariat area is as below:

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Why do we need to support this hospital?
• 45% of the population earns less than SL Rupees of 500 Rupees
• Batticoloa Teaching Hospital is 10KMs from this district hospital, the
community cannot afford the cost of travel, as such life’s are put at risk.
• In addition to this transport between the two regions is lacking. Thus there
is a huge need for the provision of medical services within this region.
• There has been no major development since the war ended and only 6
doctors work at the Arayampathy Hospital.
• The biggest need at this neglected hospital is to re-establish the morgue
by repairing the dilapidated morgue and its refrigeration system.
• They cannot keep any dead bodies due to lack of cooling system.

15. Why do we need to support this hospital?
• The bodies are either left to decay or send to Batticoloa Teaching Hospital
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if there is any post-mortem examination.
• This can cause disease to general public and is an additional problem to the
hospital and environment.
• Due to unavailability of cooler the public face enormous difficulties in
performing certain formalities and need to pay more money to preserve the
bodies in private funeral parlours.
• It has also be highlighted that the access to the Mortuary is difficult, and
long narrow passage with bush and shrubs. It is not easy to transfer the
bodies to morgue because hospital beds cannot go through the passage.
This passage needs a better access as well.

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What is needed urgently?
• Following medical equipment’s are urgently required and will enable the
doctors to deliver acute and critical care of local patients, and stabilise
them prior to transfer to the main hospital.

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Funding
• We estimate the project to cost in the vicinity of AUD $125,000 (USD
$110,000 )
• We have a pledge from the Australian Medical Aid Foundation for financial
contribution of AUD $35,000 (USD $30,000) towards this project
• How can we achieve the rest of the funding?
Host Club $100.00
International Club $40,000.00
AMAF $35,000.00
Total Club Contributions $75,100.00
Host District $1,000.00
International District $6,000.00
Total DDF Contributions $7,000.00
Rotary Foundation Global Grant
50% Total Club Contribution $37,550.00
100% DDF Contribution $7,000.00
Total Global Grant Contributions $44,550.00
Total Funding From Rotary $126,650.00

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We need your support