Kathmandu, Dec. 18
Chhatrapati Free Hospital in Kathmandu Metropolitan City Ward
No. 17 has installed a 100-cylinder capacity oxygen plant.
Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha
Bhusal, inaugurated the facility on Saturday morning. The plant is supported by
Daya Foundation, United Neva, an organization of Nepalis in USA, ION and more
than a dozen other organizations and individuals.
The plant is installed at the cost of Rs. 14.5 million.
Minister Bhusal expressed confidence that it would further
help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. "Nepal needs to be
prepared in advance as the new variant of the virus is spreading to other parts
of the world. Oxygen plant at the hospital would play an important role in
saving the lives of the people," she said.
Since the hospital is located in the middle of the urban area
and extending its services to poor and helpless people, the government would extend
additional support to it, said the Minister.
She assured that the government would provide free
electricity to the hospital.
Navin Manandhar, chairman of the ward, said that the hospital
had played a significant role in the 2015 earthquake and the current COVID
pandemic.
Chairman of Chhatrapati Free Hospital Dr. Manojman Shrestha
informed that the new building has been managed in such a way that there is no
shortage of oxygen. He expressed his commitment to be more dedicated in the
service of the helpless, poor and low-income people in the days to come.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 19 December 2021.
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