BHAKTAPUR: The KHWOPA Hospital, run by the Bhaktapur Municipality, has received medical equipment worth more than Rs 10 million from the Shannan City in Tibet, China, which has a sister relationship with the Bhaktapur Municipality.
Mayor Sunil Prajapati said that the assistive devices include 1 set of ventilator, 32 sets of oxygen concentrator, 100 sets of oxygen cylinder (40 liters) and 50 sets of ICU beds. According to Prajapati, the assistance is worth 599,400 Chinese yuan (Rs. 1,921,068). The materials that came through the Tatopani checkpoint have been kept at the Public Health Center at Chyamhasingh in Bhaktapur. He also expressed gratitude to the government and people of Shannan, a sister city of Bhaktapur in Tibet, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, for not providing them with assistance even in the event of an epidemic.
B.S. A sister city was established between Bhaktapur Municipality and Shannan City of Tibet, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. In this process, experience and cooperation have been exchanged between the two cities time and again. Representatives of Bhaktapur Municipality have visited Shannan city once and Bhaktapur city has also been visited from Shannan city.
Concerns have been raised about the rapid spread of the second wave of COVID 19 in Nepal due to the global epidemic. Correspondence has been sent from Shannan Municipality. Was done. Citing the example of a good friend, the sister city Shannan's support to Bhaktapur Napa said that mutual friendship and relations are connected at the grassroots level, said Prajapati.
Mayor Sunil Prajapati had appealed to the locals for help in running the hospital after the federal government did not support Bhaktapur Municipality, the only municipality elected on behalf of the Nepal Mazdur Kisan Party. Although the federal government has provided budget to the other three hospitals in the district for the oxygen plant, the locals have already provided more than 50 million rupees as no budget has been provided to Bhaktapur Municipality.
Bhaktapur Municipality is currently operating a 75-bed covid unit with 25-bed HDU under the KHP Hospital for the patients of Covid-19 in a multi-purpose building at Bramhayani. He informed that the trial production of the plant has started and the oxygen production capacity of the plant is 120 cylinders daily.
