From left: Alfred Francis, chairman, Jamdammers Running Club, Tanya Miller, vice-president, marketing and new product development, Pan Caribbean Financial Services, Beverley Needham, chief executive
officer of the Bustamante Hospital for Children, Donovan Perkins, president and CEO, Pan Caribbean Financial Services, and Hugh Lawson, acting CEO, National Health Fund, join hands at the launch of the Pan Caribbean Sigma Corporate Run on Tuesday. – Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer The Sigma Corporate Run is a five-kilometre (3.1 miles) run and walk event that is open to runners and walkers of all fitness levels. Helping children Last year, more than 8,000 participants from 85 corporate companies raced and raised approximately $12.2 million for the renal units of the University Hospital of the West Indies, Cornwall Regional Hospital and the Kingston Public Hospital. This year, the organisers are taking on an even greater challenge relating to the health and welfare of the nation’s children. For the first time, they have joined hands with Shaggy’s Make A Difference Foundation in an attempt to raise $14 million to lift the standard of health care at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital and other paediatric wards across the island. According to Donovan Perkins, president and chief cxecutive officer of Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited, the Bustamante Hospital must be recognised for the tremendous role it plays in the health care of children in Jamaica and the region.
“We all know what’s happening in Jamaica today and so the tougher things get, the more we need to work together to help those whose needs are great, the more we need to work together to help our country,” Perkins said.