Sagicor Corporate Run donates ventilating machines to UHWI

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Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited today presented the Special Care Nursery of the University of the West Indies with almost six million worth of vital medical equipment. The Special Care Nursery was the recipient of two ventilators and ventilator accessories.

 It is a part of the Department of Child Health at the University Hospital of the West Indies is a 30-bed paediatric casualty and Newborn Special Care Nursery which includes a four bed neonatal intensive care unit. The main subspecialties are infectious diseases, development and behavioural paediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, pulmonology and other subspecialties managed in conjunction with other specialties.

Earlier this year , the company presented three other beneficiaries of the annual 5.5k road race with well needed equipment and contracted services from the over $21million raised. They included the Sickle Cell Unit TMRI at the University of the West Indies; Sickle Cell Trust in Mandeville and Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation.

One of the ventilating machines donated bythe 2014 Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run

Ingrid Card, Assistant Vice President of Sagicor's Group Marketing said "the support from Jamaicans was overwhelming. We want to thank every single person that registered, donated and volunteered to make a difference. Sigma Corporate Run shows that when Jamaicans unite we can do anything."

Sagicor Group Jamaica is a financial services conglomerate.  The Group offers products and ser

vices in the areas of Banking, Insurance, Investments, Real Estate, Asset Management and Retirement Planning.  Sagicor  Life  Jamaica  Limited  is  the  leading  Life  and  Health  insurance provider in  Jamaica. The  Company  commenced  operations in  1970 as  Life  of  Jamaica  Limited,  the  first locally owned  life  insurance  company  and  the  first  life  insurance  company  to  be  listed  on  the  JSE. The Sagicor Group owns the 3rd largest bank in Jamaica and one of the top Investment Company.  

Sagicor Group Jamaica is a member of the wider Sagicor Financial Corporation.  Sagicor Financial Corporation operates in over 20 countries and its operations date back to 1840.

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