KINGSTON, Jamaica: Medical equipment valued at $7.7 million purchased from part proceeds raised by the 2014 Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run was handed over to The Sickle Cell Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) during a presentation ceremony earlier this week.  

Among the items presented was a Resolve Isoelectric Focusing System and a D-10™ Hemoglobin Analyser System at the Unit’s University of the West Indies’ Mona location.

The Sickle Cell Unit is one of four child care health facilities that received support from proceeds of the $21,679,075.00 raised from the 16th staging of the 5K run, walk and wheelchair event. The other charities include the Sickle Cell Trust in Mandeville, the Special Care Nursery at the University Hospital of the West Indies and the Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation.

Richard Byles, President and CEO at Sagicor Group Jamaica said “Sickle Cell is a disease that has touched the lives of many Jamaicans, either directly or indirectly. The Sickle Cell Unit, TMRI has done good work and we are happy to lend this support. Sagicor has put in place a maintenance schedule to ensure that the machines donated today will function well in the years to come.”