The Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has extended a donation of Rs 18 million to the LRBT, which provides free eye-care facility. An announcement to this effect was made in a statement issued here on Monday.
It said that Gavin Laws, Head of Governance Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, UK and the Americas, Standard Chartered Bank, presented a cheque to Saquib Hameed, Vice Chairman and CEO of LRBT, after a visit to their Korangi Hospital in Karachi.
LRBT is the largest provider of free eye care in Pakistan among 14 nation-wide network eye care hospitals. Saquib Hameed received the guest and showed him around the hospital.
Laws was impressed by the state of the art services being provided to poor and needy people absolutely free of cost without any regard to caste, colour, religion or gender, it said. Speaking on the occasion, Laws said that Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) had been partnering LRBT's Prevention of Curable Blindness activities for the past three years as a part of their world wide 'Seeing Is Believing' campaign.
The statement also said that Laws added, on the occasion, that Standard Chartered Bank would be continuing their support over the next three years and will be donating Rs 18 million to LRBT.
Hameed thanked Laws and the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) for their generosity and stated that LRBT was committed to providing free of cost treatment to the destitute people of the country. Furthermore, Hameed said that LRBT looks forward to a continuing long-term partnership with the Bank, it added.
The statement further pointed out that in Pakistan, the Standard Chartered is the largest and fastest growing international bank with 174 branches in 39 cities across the country.
It said that the Standard Chartered Bank's global campaign "Seeing is Believing" aims to help eradicate blindness. It was launched in Pakistan towards the end of 2004 in partnership with a reputed international non-profit Sight savers International and has been responsible for an overall reduction in prevalence of cataract blindness in Pakistan by 20 per cent.
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