Switzerland to aid emergency health supplies to Nepal

KATHMANDU, May 19: Switzerland has pledged to aid Nepal with emergency health supplies for the prevention and control of COVID-19. In a telephonic conversation with Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokharel on Wednesday, Swiss Ambassador for Nepal Elizabeth Von Capeller shared that Switzerland is providing Nepal with different health support materials in its fight against coronavirus, informed DPM’s press advisor Ganesh Pandey. According to the Ambassador, the Swiss government is aiding oxygen concentrator, PPE, masks and antigen test kit. On the occasion, Swiss Ambassador also informed that the cargo chartered flight of Gulliv Air carrying the emergency health aid will be arriving Kathmandu on Saturday. The Swiss government will bear the flight costs involved in the transport of health assistance.

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Health Minister Basnet returns home

KATHMANDU, May 26: Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet has returned home after attending the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland. He returned home this morning. In the course of participating in the Assembly, Minister Basnet met wi

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BSP, Nepal, provides health supplies worth Rs 19 million

KATHMANDU, June 8: BSP Nepal, a non-government organisation, has provided health supplies to health workers deputed for treatment of COVID-19 infected people at different health institutions and hospitals across the country. The organisation distributed health supplies worth around Rs 19 million including PPEs and face masks at government and private hospitals and different health institutions of 42 local levels including Kailali, Kanchanpur, Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Parsa, Rukum, Arghakhanchi, Chitwan, Makawanpur, Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. BSP Nepal Chair Shekhar Aryal said that the organisation distributed necessary health supplies at health institutions as part of their social responsibility and with an objective of making service of health institutions of rural areas effective. Aryal expressed the belief that the health workers and general people would be directly benefitted from such type of support. Similarly, Executive Director of the organisation, Prakash Lamichhane, said that the organisation with the support of My Climate Foundation, Switzerland distributed 10,000 PPE sets along with surgical masks. Urging the hospitals and health institutions to utilize the received health supplies in an appropriate way, he expressed commitment to provide such support in future.

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