NCC Bank Donates ICU-Equipped Ambulance to Zia Heart Foundation in Dinajpur
As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, NCC Bank PLC has donated an ambulance equipped with modern medical equipment and intensive care unit (ICU) facilities to the Zia Heart Foundation in Dinajpur.
The bank said the initiative would play an important role in ensuring emergency healthcare for critically ill patients, including those suffering from heart disease.
Recently, NCC Bank additional managing director Md Zakir Anam handed over the ambulance keys to A K M Azad, general secretary of the Zia Heart Foundation, Dinajpur.
Present on the occasion were NCC Bank Rajshahi branch manager Kamal Hossain, hospital management committee members Abu Taher Abu, Khalekuzzaman Babu, Dr Golam Gaus Montu, Golam Rasul Rocket, Shamim Kabir, Piyal Ahmed and Mokched Ali Monglia, former Diabetic Hospital general secretary Shafiqul Haque Chutu and Dhaka-based Dinajpur Samity general secretary Shah Mohammad Ashfaqur Rahman, along with other officials of both organisations.
Earlier, at a ceremony held at the Secretariat, NCC Bank chairman Md Nurun Newaz Selim handed over the ambulance keys to foundation general secretary A K M Azad in the presence of Women and Children Affairs and Social Welfare Minister Professor Dr A Z M Zahid Hossain MP and State Minister Farzana Sharmin MP.
Later, on the minister's advice, ICU facilities and modern medical equipment were added to the ambulance, after which it was formally handed over to the foundation authorities.
On the occasion, NCC Bank additional managing director Md Zakir Anam said the bank has, since its founding, played an important role in the country's socio-economic development alongside its banking activities. As part of its social responsibility, he said, the bank works in education, healthcare, support for marginal farmers, financing of agricultural research, welfare of disadvantaged and backward communities, building environment-friendly ecosystems to improve the lives of char dwellers, and humanitarian support for persons with disabilities.
He said the ICU-equipped ambulance with modern medical equipment was given to the Zia Heart Foundation, Dinajpur, as a continuation of that work. The bank believes, he added, that the ambulance will play an important role in ensuring emergency transport and immediate medical care, especially for heart patients and other critically ill patients, and that such initiatives will continue in future.
