Kathmandu, Jan. 27
The Non-Resident
Nepali Association (NRNA) has handed over a mobile blood bus to Lumbini
province.
President of the Association
Dr. Badri KC handed over the bus to the President of Nepal Red Cross Society
Banke, Govardhan Singh Samjhana through Kalruddin Rai, acting Mayor of Nepalgunj
Sub-Metropolitan City at a ceremony held here on Friday.
The mobile blood bus
costs about Rs. 7 million.
Addressing the
programme, Dr. KC said that more than Rs. 50 million Nepalis have been
displaced abroad due to various reasons.
Expressing grief over
the daily arrival of 10 to 12 dead bodies from abroad to Nepal, he said that
the NRNA is working for the welfare of the workers abroad. He informed that in
the last two decades, the Association has invested Rs. 100 billion and done
charity work worth Rs. 1 billion.
Acting Mayor Rai,
expressed his happiness over the support of the mobile blood bus in Lumbini
Province by the Nepalis living abroad.
Chief District
Officer of Banke, Shraman Kumar Pokharel, Central Vice-President of Nepal Red
Cross Society Surendra Singh Air and other local government officials were
present in the programme.
In accordance with
the policy of operating mobile blood bus service in all seven provinces, the NRNA
had previously handed over mobile blood buses to Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati and
Sudurpaschim.
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