RCL and Delmege jointly donate medical consumables and equipment worth Rs. 6.5 million to Colombo North Teaching Hospital – Ragama 

Regional Container Lines (RCL), a Thailand-based, leading shipping line, and Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Shipping) Ltd, a subsidiary of Delmege Ltd, which has represented RCL in Sri Lanka for over 15 years, donated medical consumables and equipment worth Rs. 6.5 million to the Colombo North Teaching Hospital – Ragama. It is noteworthy that this is the first time that RCL is making a donation of this scale outside of its base country, Thailand. 

Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Shipping) Ltd conducts many projects of this nature annually, and this year, it identified the Colombo North Teaching Hospital – Ragama, the largest tertiary care institution in the Colombo North region, which was in critical need of medical supplies. As a teaching hospital that provides training assistance to the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kelaniya and the Nurses Training School in Kadana, this donation would assist not only in patient care but also in training the next generation of medical professionals. 

Speaking at the handing over ceremony held on the 29^th of September, Mr. Kalinga Seneviratne, General Manager, Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Shipping) Ltd, stated, “the medical consumables and equipment donated were essential for the hospital in order to provide crucial life-saving medical care to its patients. This donation is a testament to the strong partnership that has been fostered with RCL and signifies the continuous commitment of the organisation to uplift the communities in which it operates.”  

Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Shipping) Ltd has been serving the shipping trade for over 100 years with lines that recognise Colombo as a hub in the East-West sea route, and operates vessels calling at the Ports of Colombo, Galle, Trincomalee, and Hambantota. 

Regional Container Lines (RCL) has been listed on the Thailand Stock Exchange since 1988 and owns a fleet of vessels which sails to many ports in the Asian region. RCL specialises in the carriage of Shipper Owned Containers (SOC) and its own Carrier Owned Containers (COC). The Company has increasingly expanded its feeder services and container liner business in Asia by providing high-quality container shipping services with reliable fix-day sailings, fast transit, the deployment of modern and high-specification container ships and customer service information technology.