Pakistan Petroleum Limited donated Rs 12.4 million and Rs 9.3 million to Indus Hospital as well as Koohi Goth Hospital respectively, as part of its ongoing CSR efforts to provide free-of-cost, quality healthcare to the underprivileged. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of PPL Syed Wamiq Bokhari presented donation cheques to CEO Indus Hospital, Dr Abdul Bari Khan and President KGH, Dr Syed Tipu Sultan on Tuesday in the presence of representatives from both organisations and company staff at an event organised at PPL's Head Office, Karachi.
The donations will assist in improving essential mother and child healthcare, which remain the most critical issue in Pakistan with infant mortality rate at an alarming 66 per 1,000 births and maternal mortality at 170 per 100,000 live births.
"Providing quality healthcare, especially for mother and child, has remained a key priority for our CSR initiatives. PPL has also established fully-equipped mother and childcare facilities in some of the remotest areas in the country," said Bokhari.
PPL's donation will be used to fund the operationalization of a state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Indus Hospital's Sheikh Saeed Memorial Campus located near Korangi, Karachi, catering to over 0.5 million people living in the vicinity beside those coming from other areas.
Indus Hospital was established in 2007 to extend free-of-cost quality treatment to the underserved and currently, hospital reaches to over 1000 in-and out-patients on daily basis through its eight campuses across the country.
PPL's donation will facilitate KGH to acquire latest equipment for its recently expanded operation theatre to draw more patients for vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistula, caesarean and laparoscopic surgeries. Earlier, the company provided Rs 4.8 million to KGH in 2014 for establishing a fully-equipped 25-bed PPL ward. PPL has been adjudged as the largest corporate giver in terms of volume of donations for 11 consecutive years by prestigious Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy. The company spent over Rs 990 million for its CSR programme during 2015-2016.-PR
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