Kathmandu, Aug 16
Fonepay Service Limited has
launched an initiative to provide financial support to Nepal Ventilator Bank's
aim to provide 1,000 ventilators to the government in 100 days.
For this, the company will
contribute Rs. 1 from every interbank transaction made in the Fonepay platform.
Chairman of F1soft Group Bishwas
Dhakal and Bank's Chairman Niranjan Shrestha signed a memorandum of
understanding to this effect on Sunday. The campaign will run for a month from
Sunday, the first day of Nepali month Bhadra.
We are happy to make the
contribution to the campaign to arrange ventilator during this difficult time
of coronavirus pandemic, it will be instrumental in saving the lives of people,
said Dhakal.
Currently, there are only 600
ventilators in Nepal but various studies have pointed to the need of about 3000
– 5000 such machines.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 17 August 2020.
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