Kathmandu, May 18
The Kamal Rural Municipality Hospital of Jhapa has received medical supplies worth around Rs 5 million.
Kathmandu-based humanitarian organisation Helping Hand for Relief and Development and Jhapa-based development organisation Work for Nepal jointly handed the medical equipment to the hospital on Wednesday.
The organisations handed over 200 types of medical supplies related to surgery and laboratory to the hospital that runs under the local government.
On the occasion, Nirmala Limbu, the Koshi provincial health minister, also inaugurated a water treatment plant there.
“Health and water both include fundamental rights of the public; the government is very much serious about it,” she said.
On the same day, Minister Limbu and Jiba Prasad Pokharel, program manager at HHRD jointly inaugurated the water plant installed in the hospital.
Kamal rural municipality chairman Hukum Singh Rai said the support has motivated him to be more responsible in serving the citizens.
“Although health services are a matter of priority for the local government since all the needs cannot be met from their own resources, the support of the higher level government and donor organisations plays a crucial role,” said Rai.
Jiba Prasad Pokharel of the HHRD said that since the health materials provided to Kamal Nagar Hospital were more useful, the organisation thought it appropriate to provide this kind of assistance for the second time.
Work For Nepal treasurer Dinesh Sangroula informed that his organisation has been conducting support programmes in various areas such as health and education in other municipalities of the Jhapa district.
