Kathmandu, Nov. 3
ActionAid Nepal has provided 9,457 Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) sets to the Ministry of Health and Population to
support the health personnel working in testing and treatment of the COVID-19
patients.
ActionAid Nepal's Executive Director Sujeeta Mathema
handed over the PPEs worth Rs. 16.2 million to Minister of Health and
Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal in a programme organised at the ministry on
Tuesday.
Among 9,457 PPEs that the organisation pledged to
support, 4,000 sets were handed over to the ministry for distribution to crisis
areas as required.
Remaining 5,457 sets will be distributed to health
personnel working in COVID-19 response through different local government units
and partner organisations in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Bardiya, Bajura,
Doti and Siraha districts.
Speaking at the handover programme, Secretary at the
Health Ministry Laxman Aryal expressed confidence that the protective equipment
would help reduce the risks among health personnel providing frontline services
in COVID-19 testing and treatment.
"The ministry will distribute these items in
the areas that require them the most, allowing for our health workers to
continue working to save people without fear of catching the disease," he
added.
The PPEs will be distributed to the health personnel
in collaboration with HBCC, DFID, Unilever and Standard Chartered Bank, said
ActionAid in its statement.
"We supported the materials so that health
services are not hampered during the crisis due to lack of safety
equipment", said Mathema. "We hope that this will further widen
health services, especially to the vulnerable; women, children, differently
abled and senior citizens."
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