JUMLA, August 11: Eighteen years old Sujal Sapkota of Birendranagar-6, Surkhet, currently residing in Kathmandu, has delivered 20 units of oxygen cylinders to Karnali Academy of Health Science, Teaching Hospital in Jumla.
KATHMANDUThe China-aided 18,000 empty oxygen cylinders have arrived Tatopani checkpoint in Sindhupalchowk district today via roadway.
According to Ganesh Pandey, press coordinator to Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinator of the Covid-19 Crisis Management Centre Ishwor Pokharel, those cylinders will be brought in Kathmandu once the Chinese government hands them over to Nepal.
As Nepal has been in the grip of second wave of Covid-19, there has been high demand of oxygen cylinders to treat the infected ones.
Earlier, 400 oxygen cylinders were flown to Nepal from China. Preparations are afoot to ferry 1,600 remaining cylinders, out of 20,000, provided by China in grant assistance, informed Pandey.
The Nepal Airlines Corporation’s wide-body aircraft, which had flown to China on Saturday, is bringing home 550 oxygen cylinders from China today itself.
The COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC) Secretariat has handed over the responsibility of distributing oxygen cylinders in the Kathmandu Valley to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).
A Nepal Airlines Corporation aircraft that had flown to China yesterday night to fetch oxygen cylinders and ventilators, has arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
Police in Kathmandu have confiscated 6,484 oxygen cylinders from various persons, households and groups that could be used for Covid-19 patients who are struggling to breathe.
Photo: HAMRO TEAM NEPAL/FACEBOOK To donate: America Nepal Medical Foundation is setting up isolation centres in Kathmandu. Donation details here. Feed the Hungry Nepal is arranging for food supplies to those who need it, as well as oxygen cylinders. Donation details on Facebook. 100’s group has been making oxygen cylinders available and getting them to Covid […]
