Sri Lankan Airlines has completed the first phase of the airlifting of essential medicines gifted by Indian donors to hospitals in Sri Lanka.
With health-care facilities and hospitals in the island-nation facing a shortage of crucial drugs, the cargo division of the airline, in association with ‘SriLankan Cares’, the carrier’s corporate social responsibility wing, has been transporting medical products donated since June, on its Airbus A320 and A330 flights.
A senior manager of the airline told The Hindu that the freight charges on the consignments of life-saving medicines weighing up to 3,000 kilograms had been waived. Presented by organisations and individuals in Bengaluru, Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai, these had been distributed across Sri Lanka.
