COVID-19: Health workers to be housed in hotels

Kathmandu - The Ministry of Health and Population is making preparations for housing the health workers involved in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in well-equipped hotels. Dr Khem Karki, the Health expert of Health Minister Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal shared that the incase of the COVID-19 taking epidemic proportion in the country, health personnel including doctors involved in the treatment would be houses in hotels near the hospitals or in other hospital nearby. They will be provided good accommodation and food facilities during the stay. This is being done to ensure that the health personnel do not spread the infection to their immediate family members, said Dr Karki. A mapping of the possible hotels and hospitals is being carried out in the event of a break out of an epidemic of the Coronavirus in the country. As a morale booster, the government has already announced free insurance and other allowances and incentives for the health workers who are in the frontline in the nation's fight against the deadly COVID-19.