A new dialysis machine is now available at the SSL Haemodialysis Welfare Foundation's Dialysis & Stroke Rehab Centre in Puchong, thanks to the donation of TFP Solutions Bhd. At a ceremony to hand over the machine to Sau Seng Lum (SSL), TFP Solutions Bhd managing director Alex Lim said the AK96 machine, priced at RM45,000 under a three-year warranty, was imported from Sweden.
“It has new and more effective features that will benefit both patients and the centre,” he added.
The foundation’s vice-president, Wong Peng Wah, said with the donation of the machine, both its centres in Petaling Jaya and Puchong had a total of 99 machines.
“We have 210 patients at both centres and each comes in 13 times a month for treatment. The fees are subsidised and so they pay about RM600 a month, compared with RM4,000 at other centres,” he said.
Other than subsidised dialysis and stroke treatments, the centre also aims to help reduce the burden of long-term medical care on families through the provision of education, preventative-care, early diagnosis of diseases and rehabilitation.
Among the guests who attended the handover ceremony were Kinrara assemblyman Teresa Kok and Sweden embassy charge d'affaires Eva Nilsson Mansfeld.
Kok applauded TFP Solutions' corporate social responsibility efforts.
“There is a growing need for businesses to take a partnership role with government and state bodies, in addressing community issues,” she said.
TFP Solutions is also having three other projects – Adopt A Patient, Adopt A Home and Adopt A Charity – to subsidise treatment cost of poor patients at the Caring Dialysis Centre in Puchong, provide support to an orphanage or old folks home throughout the year, and channel its sales profit to a certain charity.
SSL Dialysis & Stroke Rehab Centre is at Lot PT-39480, Jalan Industri PBP 3, Taman Industri, Pusat Bandar Puchong, 47100 Puchong. Tel: 03-5882 9181.
Source: The Star, 11 June 2008
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