Projects

• Sri Sathya Sai Karunalayam Medical Centre at Batticaloa started functioning in August 2017 and has so far treated over 9,500 patients at the Outpatient Department, totally Free of Cost
• Opthalmology unit commenced services in November 2018 and eye camps are conducted every two weeks
• Specialist consultation services by a Consultant Physician is carried out once a week
• Students in a primary school at Dharmapuram town in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka are provided with morning breakfast every day. Close to 35,000 meals have been served in the last couple of years
• Since September 2015, banana and milk are served everyday to primary school students in Batticaloa to complement the breakfast meal provided by the Government of Sri Lanka
• Plans for a Centre for Human Development, a school and a hospital across 50 acres of land, is in the course of action and will be inaugurated in early 2020
• As part of this undertaking, the construction of a General Hospital has commenced on June 1, 2019. This General Hospital will consist of 75 beds with specialist consultation for Dental, Gynaecology, Opthalmology, Paediatrics, and Gastroenterology. The hospital will be fully-equipped and will primarily serve as a Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Hospital. All treatments shall be offered absolutely Free of Cost at this hospital

EDUCATION:

• Milk and Banana were provided for school-going children, which started in 2015, and was successfully continued whenever the school was functional. But unfortunately, due to the spread of COVID-19 virus, schools in Sri Lanka had to close down from time to time
• Shoes and socks were also provided to school-going children. This was a special project which supported 52 school-going children

SOCIOCARE:

• Even though usual activities of the Medical Centre could not be carried out due to the pandemic, a village outreach programme commenced, targeting elderly people and children. Over 150 field visits were made to distribute over 15,500 meals to those needy individuals/families, around two to three times per week
• In addition, during the lockdown situations, over INR 1.5 million worth of dry ration packs were distributed to over 600 needy families, who lost their means of income generation due to pandemic
• A ‘care package’ which consisted of herbal remedies such as coriander seeds, ginger and lime as well as home help medical packs and masks were distributed to the elders in a village. Under this initiative, close to 200 elders were handed over the care packs
• During the rainy season, special packages consisting of fungal cream and pain relief balms were distributed to the elders