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“Help Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee buy medical equipment for COVID patients.”

Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee (MFSAC)

Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee is a student body representative of all the medical students from Sri Lankan government sector medical faculties. Since our initiation in 1983, we have been vigilant and concerned about the challenges Sri Lankan education system and health system had to face.

As per the current status of the country, Sri Lankan health sector has not faced a dire challenge as this COVID 19 pandemic in recent past. With daily counts of patients rising at an alarming rate, we can’t help but wonder about the possibility of the patient load overwhelming the health sector. In face of such challenges, it’s inspiring for health care students, to see the effort put in by all healthcare workers, government officials and military personal to tackle the pandemic. But at the same time, it’s frustrating when we aren’t able to contribute in this battle against COVID, still being students who are in the process of learning.

Therefore, as a contribution in our level, we have decided to raise funds and purchase medical equipment that are essential in management of COVID patients. These equipment will be purchased under the supervision of National Corona Task Force and will be directly donated to the Task Force itself, which would then be distributed to hospitals treating COVID patients.

Therefore, as a contribution in our level, we have decided to raise funds and purchase medical equipment that are essential in management of COVID patients. These equipment will be purchased under the supervision of National Corona Task Force and will be directly donated to the Task Force itself, which would then be distributed to hospitals treating COVID patients.

Medical equipment with good quality, that are suitable to treat patients cost a substantial amount of money. Hence the number of equipment we will be able to purchase will entirely depend upon your donations. A Pulse-oximeter, which measures Oxygen levels in blood is an essential piece of equipment not only in managing COVID patients but also in management of all critical patients. Currently a finger tip pulse-oximeter costs around 12,500 LKR/= Per unit. Adding to that, Oxygen regulators which are essential in managing patients with breathing difficulties costs around 20,000/= in the current market. Advanced medical equipment such as infusion pumps, multipara monitors are also much needed in new intermediate care centers and hospitals. We hope that your kind donations will enable us to purchase those advanced medical equipment as well. Therefore all donations matter. Together let’s be an effective part of the battle against COVID.

Thank you!

Given the challenging times Sri Lankan health care sector is facing currently, we are confident that donors will be generous enough to help us achieve the target of 2.5Million LKR. However, entertaining the possibility of not achieving the target 2.5 Million LKR, we decided to stratify the money target into five levels that would correspond with five groups of medical equipment with increasing value.

Target Level 01 – Rs. 500,000/=

Description	Cost per Item	Quantity Required	Total Cost
Cylinder Oxygen Regulator	Rs.20,000	15	Rs.300,000
Finger Pulse -Oximeters	Rs.12,500	16	Rs.200,000
Total Requirement - Level 01			Rs.500,000

Target Level 02 – Rs. 1.000,000/=

Description	Cost per Item	Quantity Required	Total Cost
Infusion Pump	Rs.85,000	5	Rs.425,000
Cylinder Oxygen Regulator	Rs.20,000	15	Rs.300,000
Finger Pulse -Oximeters	Rs.12,500	22	Rs.275,000
Total Requirement - Level 02			Rs.1,000,000

Target Level 03 – Rs. 1.500,000/=

Description	Cost per Item	Quantity Required	Total Cost
Multipara monitor-basic	Rs.275,000	3	Rs.825,000
Infusion Pump	Rs.85,000	3	Rs.255,000
Cylinder Oxygen Regulator	Rs.20,000	11	Rs.220,000
Finger Pulse -Oximeters	Rs.12,500	16	Rs.200,000
Total Requirement - Level 03			Rs.1,500,000

Target Level 04 – Rs. 2.000,000/=

Description	Cost per Item	Quantity Required	Total Cost
Multipara monitor-basic	Rs.275,000	5	Rs.1,375,000
Infusion Pump	Rs.85,000	5	Rs.425,000
Cylinder Oxygen Regulator	Rs.20,000	5	Rs.100,000
Finger Pulse -Oximeters	Rs.12,500	8	Rs.100,000
Total Requirement - Level 04			Rs.2,000,000

Target Level 05 – Rs. 2.500,000/=

Description	Cost per Item	Quantity Required	Total Cost
Multipara monitor-basic	Rs.275,000	9	Rs.2,475,000
Finger Pulse -Oximeters	Rs.12,500	2	Rs.25,000
Total Requirement - Level 05			Rs.2,500,000

*Please note that above mentioned prices are as of 02.05.2021
**Mentioned prices may be subject to change

Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee (MFSAC) is a student organization that consists of students of all state medial faculties. We have been active since 1983 standing and raising our voice for free education and free health in Sri Lanka. Apart from that, every year MFSAC organize different social service projects such as blood donation camps, financial support schemes for students with financial difficulties, education programs for pre-medicine, Advanced Level students and health camps etc.

Whenever there’s a national crisis, MFSAC has lead the medical students, in helping people in all possible ways. We have organized health camps for people affected by natural disasters such as floods, landslides throughout our active years with the help of doctors, nurses and other health care workers. Adding to that we have organized blood donation camps in multiple occasions when there were shortages of blood in blood banks.

With the emergence of COVID pandemic, MFSAC took part in running the corona call center along with National Corona Task Force. We also took part in projects home delivering medicine and essential food items to the general public and doctors. Furthermore, we have been carrying out awareness campaigns on social media platforms, in order to educate the public whenever it’s required.

To find more about us please visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MFSACsl/

Our target is to raise Rs. 2.5 Million within one month.

4th June 2021 - And we are off with our campaign, really looking forward to your support.

Contact details for further inquiries

Name: Medical Faculty Student's Action Committe
Address: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya
MFSU, No. 05 Thalagolla Road, Ragama

Project Co-Ordinator: Dulanja Senanayake
Phone Number: +94 (0) 77 814 6876
Email: dulanjavishwajith@gmail.com

Convenor: Imesh Sangeeth
Phone Number: +94 (0) 712 41 6446
Email: apispriyashan@gmail.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MFSACsl/

Together against COVID

Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee (MFSAC)