Himalaya Airlines donates PPEs and RDT kits

Kathmandu, Oct. 4

Himalaya Airlines has supported Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre - Bansbari, National Trauma Centre- Mahankal and Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital- Pharping with COVID-19 preventive medical supplies.

Sensing the urgent need for the wellbeing of the frontline health workers fighting the pandemic, the company is extending its continued support to various hospitals around the valley for the prevention of spread of coronavirus across the communities, it said in a statement on Sunday.

The Airlines, last week, handed over 100 PPE sets and 100 RDT kits to Dr. Ranjit Baral, Senior Consultant Cardiologist of Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre and 100 PPE sets and 100 RDT kits to Dr. Gyanendra Shah, Orthopedic Surgeon of National Trauma Centre.  

Ujjwala Dali, Head of Department for Brand and Service Improvement handed over the equipment.

Scaling up its efforts to specifically reach out to the health sector communities around the valley, the Airlines also donated COVID-19 essential medical supplies of 100 PPE sets, 100 RDT Test Kits 200 surgical masks, 200 surgical gloves, 50 N95 Masks, 50 face shields, 500 shoe covers, & 5 bottles of sanitizer (500ML each) to Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital of Pharping. Purna Bahadur Shahi, Acting Chairperson, accepted the donated supplies on behalf of the hospital.

Dali said that the company hoped that the medical supplies would greatly assist the frontline workers.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 5 October 2020.