Kathmandu, Dec. 7
Creasion has successfully installed and handed over an
oxygen plant to the Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre
at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu.
Creasion has
installed the machine with funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation, it
said in a statement on Wednesday.
The installed oxygen
plant can serve up to 50 patients at a time and provides 240 litres of oxygen
per second.
Dev
Kumari Guragain, Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, said,
"The pandemic had made us realise the importance of staying prepared and
well-equipped with the essential materials. We are happy to have organisations
to support the healthcare sector in doing so.”
Likewise, Manmohan
Hospital expressed happiness while receiving the oxygen plant and said
that it would help strengthen infrastructure to address the possible health
crises.
TU Teaching Hospital was
established in 1983 and is an integral part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
of the TU.
The 700-bed facility
operates medical research projects and provides a major impulsion to Biomedical
and Health Sciences Research (BHSR) in Nepal. TUTH has 22 departments and
provides services from basic medical and surgical problems to open heart
surgery and kidney transplant along with a Cancer Ward.
Manmohan Cardiothoracic
Vascular and Transplant Centre (MCVTC), under the Institute of Medicine (IOM),
was established about 13 years ago. Aanand Mishra, Founder and President of Creasion,
said that his organisation hoped the plant would tackle the problem of
insufficient supply of oxygen to the patients and help them in the time of need.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 8 December 2022.
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