Philbert Perry (left), Assistant Vice President, Sagicor Life Individual Life Insurance, learns about the uses of the incubator from Dr. Jacqueline Wright-James, acting Senior Medical Officer at Spanish Town Hospital, while Technical Director at Medical Link, Lainsworth Walker (centre) looks on.
April 7, 2019
Spanish Town Hospital gets $25m in equipment from Sagicor Foundation
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Specialised medical equipment valued at $25 million were last Wednesday donated to the Spanish Town Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), from part proceeds of the 2018 Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run.
Sagicor, in a statement today, said another $5 million has also been allocated to maintain the equipment.
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Dr Jacqueline Wright-James, acting Senior Medical Officer (SMO) of the hospital, in receiving the donation, noted that Sagicor, through the Sagicor Foundation, is always sensitive to the needs of the institution. In her address at the official handover ceremony, she said: “At the Sagicor Foundation, they are always working to be our Santas, and to provide our wish list items and for that we are extremely grateful.”
The hospital’s Special Care Unit, which caters to mainly premature babies, was also a beneficiary of proceeds from the 2017 Sigma Run, which facilitated a donation of more than $14 million in medical equipment, with the unit receiving its first ventilator last year.
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Wright-James said that following that handover, the NICU Nursery was significantly improved, being able to provide “transformational care” for its newborn and vulnerable premature babies.
Dwayne Francis, CEO of the hospital, echoed the acting SMO’s the sentiments, adding that Sagicor was the largest single corporate benefactor of the hospital.
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He commended the financial conglomerate for placing health care at the heart of their company’s corporate social responsibility programme, noting that “These donations will give our future leaders a fighting chance,” referring in particular to the premature babies.
Philbert Perry, Assistant Vice-President, Individual Life Insurance at Sagicor, who represented the Sagicor Foundation, reiterated Sagicor’s commitment to playing its part in improving the nation’s health-care institutions.
“The Sagicor Foundation’s mandate of “Caring, Inspiring, Serving” is engrained in all that we do at Sagicor and is further cemented in our company’s vision of improving the lives of persons in the communities in which we operate,” Perry said.
The donation includes over 50 pieces of medical equipment to help save lives, including a Transcutaneous Monitor, Neo-Puff Infant Resuscitators, Photo-therapy Lamps, Oxygen Blenders and Infant Incubators.
Over the past 21 years, The Sagicor Sigma Run has raised more than $400million for various child and health related institutions and organisations across Jamaica.
The 2019 staging of the event was historic and recording breaking, with over 27,000 people registering for the fun-run and raising over $52.4 million, the highest funds raised since inception. This year’s proceeds will assist the May Pen Hospital Neonatal Unit, the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica, and the Diabetes Association of Jamaica.
