KATHMANDU: India on Friday handed over medical gear, together with ventilators and ambulances, price over Rs 18 crore to Nepal as a gesture of solidarity and shut cooperation with the Himalayan nation in its combat towards the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India to Nepal, handed over medical provides to Nepal Military chief Gen Purna Chandra Thapa throughout a ceremony on the Nepali Military Headquarters in Tundikhel.
“Combating COVID-19 Collectively. As a gesture of solidarity & shut cooperation, medical gear together with ventilators & ambulances was handed over at this time by Ambassador Kwatra to Common Purna Chandra Thapa, Chief of the Nepali Military,” the Indian Embassy in Nepal tweeted.
“The medical provides had been offered by the Indian Military,” the Nepal Military spokesperson stated in a tweet.
As a part of its Neighborhood First’ coverage, medical gear and provides price Nepali Rupees 28.80 crore (about INR 18,01,09,000) offered by the Indian Military, the Indian Embassy stated in a press release.
The ambassador reaffirmed India’s help to the Nepali Military in its combat towards the COVID-19 pandemic.
The medical gear, together with ventilators, ambulances, ICU beds, PPE Kits, PCR take a look at kits and many others was delivered to Kathmandu on June 10.
The Indian Military has been helping the Nepali Military to combat COVID-19 by numerous sorts of help since final yr, together with 1 lakh doses of COVISHIELD vaccines which had been offered in March 2021.
The most recent help is one other testomony to the shut cooperation between the 2 armies and the 2 nations, significantly in occasions of want, the assertion stated.
Nepal’s coronavirus caseload surpassed 600,000-mark on Thursday with 2,874 extra individuals testing constructive for the an infection.
In the meantime, 59 contemporary fatalities pushed Nepal’s whole demise toll to eight,238.
The nation’s lively Covid-19 case depend at present stands at 77,858.
