Ambassador of India to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra today handed over a 960 LPM Medical Oxygen Plant to Minister of State for Health, Umesh Shrestha at a ceremony organised at the Ministry of Health & Population.
The Bagmati Province government is to take forward installation of oxygen plants in eight of the 13 District Hospitals in view of the risk of third wave of COVID-19.
Bagmati Province Minister for Social Development Saraswati Basnet has said preparations are afoot by assessing the risk of the third wave of coronavirus
Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning of the Bagmati Province, Kailash Prasad Dhungel, has reaffirmed his commitment to prioritize prevention and control of COVID-19 and to treat the infected ones in the new budget, policy and programme
The health facilities in Chitwan district have been working to expand the capacity of oxygen plants when the entire country including the district is struggling with a short supply of life-saving gas with the surging COVID-19 cases.
The NIC Asia Bank has provided three oxygen concentrator machines to the Tokha Municipality to help the municipality cope with oxygen shortage it is facing amidst the increase in Covid-19 cases.
Chief Minister of Bagmati Province, Dormani Poudel has directed the hospitals in all the13 districts of the Province to install oxygen plant at the earliest for facilitating in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Government all ministries, bodies, and sectors have started becoming more active in the fight against the deadly second wave of Covid-19 pandemic with the formation of new government under Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's leadership.