Minister Ale sends 22 oxygen cylinders to Doti Hospital

KATHMANDU, May 16: Minister for Forest and Environment Prem Bahadur Ale has provided 22 oxygen cylinders to the District Hospital in Doti in his personal initiation. Minister Ale took the lead to send the cylinders containing the  life-saving gas to the Hospital after learning about the difficulties in treatment of the Covid-19 patients in the Hospital in lack of oxygen cylinders.  According to Minister Ale’s personal secretary Hemanta Regmi, 17 big and 5 small cylinders were sent to Doti Hospital through Nepalgunj.  Furthermore, efforts were underway to  dispatch 50 oxygen cylinders and 50 set of surgical masks to the Seti Provincial Hospital in Kailali in support of Minister Ale.  Doti Hospital’s medical superintendent Krishna Joshi shared that the humanitarian assistance of Minister Ale has facilitated in treatment of the Covid-19 patients in the Hospital and it has raised patients’ and their families’ hopes.   According to Joshi, Minister Ale has pledged to send five oxygen concentrators to the Hospital very soon. 

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World Vision aids medical supplies worth Rs 16 million

DOTI, May 31: World Vision International has aided medical supplies worth up to Rs 16 million for the prevention and control of coronavirus in Sudurpaschim Province.    The organization has provided 440 oxygen cylinder, 10 oxygen concentrators, 380 infrared thermometer, 380 pulse oximeter, 45 PPE sets, 25 hospital beds, masks, sanitizers and other emergency medical supplies to the five most affected districts, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Achham, Bajhang and Doti.    World Vision’s COVID-19 Response Manager and Field Operation Manager Chetraj Bhattarai informed that the organization distributed 85 oxygen cylinders in Kailali and 70 cylinders each in Achham, Bajhang and Doti along with other medical appliances.    The medical support would be brought into use in the COVID hospitals operational in different local levels of Sudurpaschim Province, he shared. ---

I swear the medical supplies I distributed were not foreign grant: Minister Ale

KATHMANDU, May 25: Minister for Forest and Environment, Prem Bahadur Ale has clarified that the 75 oxygen cylinders that he provided to the District Hospital, Doti, were not a foreign grant.