Ceylinco Life conducted a free medical camp in Neluwa in Galle under the Company’s ‘Waidya Hamuwa’ community health programe recently, ending 2024 with 12 such camps that benefitted over 2,600 people.
The long-running ‘Waidya Hamuwa’ program has now completed 20 years, providing access to doctors and diagnostic tests to well over 150,000 people, and has played a significant role in helping them treat previously undiagnosed non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Last year’s medical camps were conducted at towns in Badulla, Ratnapura, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Moneragala, Hambantota, Ampara, Polonnaruwa, Puttalam, Kurunegala, Matara and Galle. The Company said the medical teams accompanied by Ceylinco Life personnel had travelled over 5,000 kilometres in 2024 to conduct these camps.
At each of these camps, residents of these areas were able to undergo tests such as random or fasting blood sugar, blood pressure, ECG, serum cholesterol and urine tests for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Visitors also underwent Body Mass Index (BMI) and vision checks by trained medical technicians. Each visitor, thereafter, had the opportunity to meet a doctor to discuss the test results and receive medical advice.
