JHAPA, July 2: The Gurkha Foundation has donated health materials including 30 oxygen cylinders to the Mechinagar municipality. The health materials worth Rs 600 thousand were jointly donated by the Gurkha Foundation, UK and the Gurkha Foundation, Nepal.
Foundation Chair Nagendra Gurung handed over the medical support to Mechinagar mayor Bimal Acharya today.
Mayor Acharya said the municipality now has more than 90 oxygen cylinders, including those provided by various donor agencies and the ones the municipality has purchased.
He informed that the oxygen cylinders received today would be distributed to the hospitals and health posts within the municipality as per the need.
KATHMANDU, June 8: The Ministry of Health and Population has requested all concerned to return the empty oxygen cylinders.
The Ministry urged one and all to provide the empty oxygen cylinders to the concerned industries as soon as possible as problem has surfaced in treatment of COVID-19 infected people at hospitals in lack of oxygen cylinders.
Issuing a notice today, Joint Spokesperson of the Ministry, Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, requested individuals, organisations and bodies for the same.
The notice reads, “Cylinders have been found kept at the houses of individuals, villages, isolations and hospitals at different places of the country due to various reasons. Oxygen supply system will be affected for failure to deliver the cylinders at the concerned industries for refilling and it might put the patients undergoing serious treatment at hospitals at risk.”
Adhikari also requested the hospitals to keep sufficient quantity of oxygen-filled cylinders, to carry out repair and maintenance of oxygen plant or tank as well as to run oxygen plant with full capacity as soon as possible.
He mentioned that though COVID-19 infection cases have been seen decreased to some extent, there is still high risk of outbreak.
A total of 591,494 people have been infected with COVID-19 so far in Nepal while 497,960 have recovered and 7,990 have succumbed to the virus.
KATHMANDU, May 26: The Ministry of Health and Population has urged one and all to return the oxygen cylinders taken personally or by any other means.
Ministry's associate spokesman Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, through a notice today, requested for returning the cylinders taken for personal, institutional, isolation centre and hospital use to the company or hospital that owns them.
Dr Adhikari said although the supply of medical oxygen has eased, there was problem as cylinders taken by persons or institutions are not returned. "The tendency of taking oxygen cylinders from one company to the next has also much increased. This might create problem in the coming days," he said.
It is stated that if oxygen cylinders remain left unused in remote places or at people's home, then the infected people undergoing treatment in hospital ICUs will be in problem.
The Ministry has also urged for making arrangements for the coordination for stopping and having stopped making decision beyond technical knowledge and wisdom on a topic as medical oxygen during the time of the pandemic. It also called for making coordination so that oxygen cylinders do not go outside the hospital supply system.
There are oxygen plants at 32 hospitals and liquid oxygen plants at three hospitals at present, the Ministry has stated.
The government has brought 900 oxygen concentrator and 5,000 oxygen cylinders after the onset of the second wave of COVID-19. It has been presently importing 70 to 80 tonnes liquid oxygen from India in a week.
The Non-resident Nepali Association has handed over 560 oxygen cylinders sent by Nepalis residing in various countries in the Gulf to the government on Sunday.
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.
KATHMANDU, May 15: The national flag-carrier Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is bringing oxygen cylinders from Beijing, the capital of China and Muscat, the capital of Oman.
The NAC A-330 wide body left for Muscat this morning to pick up 600 oxygen gas cylinders to be received from Oman in assistance. The Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) and the Nepali Embassy in Oman had facilitated the assistance. The NAC aircraft will be returning from Muscat this evening.
Similarly, the NAC wide body is scheduled to leave for Beijing at 11:00 pm today to bring medical assistance which also includes oxygen cylinders provided by the Government of China. Besides, preparation is on to bring eight oxygen concentrators from China. The government plans to send the NAC wide body to China on May 15, 16 and 17 to bring 550 oxygen cylinders per each flight amidst the raging Covid-19 crisis.
Nepali migrant workers in various countries in the Gulf have bought 600 oxygen cylinders to send to Nepal to help their motherland fight the Covid-19 crisis.
KATHMANDU, May 12: The Nepal Bureau of Standards & Metrology (NBSM) has donated filled oxygen cylinders to Birendra Military Hospital in Chhauni and Balaju oxygen industry (three to hospital, one to industry).
The donated oxygen cylinders were being used by the Bureau, said the Bureau Director General, Bishwo Babu Pudasaini. He urged donation of oxygen cylinders amid the second wave of Covid-19.
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.
