RIU Hotels & Resorts Collaborates with Pediatric Clinic in Jamaica

The chain’s is the largest donation ever received by this clinic, which offers orthopedic treatments. The economic aid is accompanied by the RIU Family’s commitment to improve these children’s lives

RIU Hotels & Resorts has donated $200,000 ($16 million Jamaican) to the Pediatric Orthopedic Services Clinic in Negril, a clinic that provides cares and treats children with orthopedic issues, injuries and skeletal deformities.

The funds, which will be distributed over a 5-year period, will be applied to covering the clinic’s operating costs, including a nurse, administrative assistant and a technician who will enable the clinic to offer children with these kinds of problems the best care. This gift is the largest corporate donation this Jamaican clinic has ever received.

“We expect this new clinic to be a leap forward in offering the best care and treatment possible for children who suffer from these problems”, says Angela Bennett, RIU Hotels & Resorts’ Sales Director in Jamaica.

The Clinic will offer orthopedic management and care for children with lower limb weakness, skeletal deformities, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and gait deviations (standing and walking stability).

Physicians from the U.S. will visit the clinic each month to evaluate patients and provide care for the children as part of the Treat & Teach program developed by Grant Meyer, Executive Director of the Pediatric Orthopedic Services Clinic.

In addition to economic aid, RIU Hotels & Resorts, which has four resorts in Jamaica, will also provide accommodations each month to visiting pediatric orthopedic specialists. In Jamaica, RIU supports the Pediatric Ward at the Savanna-la-mar Hospital, a scholarship fund for tourism students at the Montego Bay Community College, and the provision of funding for several students at the Academic Resource Center for Language in Montego Bay.