Christian Medical College Vellore’s donation
To the Northern Provincial Health Ministry
‘ Not to be ministered unto but to minister ‘
Teaching Hospital, Jaffna has been fortunate in that it has received help from numerous sources during these difficult times.
Among those who have come forward with such help has been Christian Medical College, Vellore . For the second time in less than six months they have made a significant donation of medicines and consumables to the hospital. On this occasion they also donated medicines and consumables for the Northern Provincial Health Ministry. All in all a total of twenty five boxes of items ranging from badly needed medicines and consumables. The commercial value of the consignment would be approximately LKR 20 million.
Thanks are due to Dr.Hamdani at the Ministry of Health, the staff of the Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai, Sri Lankan Airlines and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for facilitating the transfer of this donation without additional cost to Colombo.
Above all, thanks are due to Dr.Vikram Mathews,the Director of CMC and his very able team headed by Dr.Thomas Ram for coming forward once again with such generosity to help the people of northern Sri Lanka.CMC has historical links with Jaffna going back two hundred years from when Dr.John Scudder, the grandfather of Dr.Ida Scudder who founded CMC, first arrived in Jaffna.The motto of CMC is ‘Not to be ministered unto but to minister’ and this is yet another demonstration of them fulfilling that ideal
On behalf of my alma mater, it was my pleasant duty to symbolically hand over the donated supplies for TH to Dy.Director Dr.Jamunanantha, along with other staff, and those for the Provincial Ministry to Ms.Krishnaveny, their Chief Pharmacist as seen in the photos.
I am confident that CMC will continue to come to our help in several ways as they have done for many years now.
Dr.Thayalan Ambalavanar
