Nepal receives medical aid from France (Photo Feature)

KATHMANDU, June 2:  Expressing its solidarity with Nepal in a fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, France has extended support of medical equipment and supplies at a time the country is grappling with the second wave of the disease.

Francois-Xavier Leger, Ambassador of France to Nepal, handed over the supplies to Hridayesh Tripathi, Minister for Health and Population at a brief ceremony held at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday morning.

The shipment contained 504,000 FFP2 masks, 20,225 antigenic test kits, 12,000 protection glasses 14 respirators including consumables.  

On the occasion, Minister Tripathi thanked the government and people of France for their generous support of life-saving materials, which would be helpful in containing the surge of COVID-19 cases and treatment of the affected people. He stated that the timely support from France is reflective of the longstanding Nepal-France friendship.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), the medical support received on Wednesday was a response to the request of the Government of Nepal to the French Government, communicated at the bilateral level as well as through the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism, for supporting Nepal with vaccines, medicines, equipment and supplies in the face of the deadlier second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Check the photos taken at the TIA earlier on Wednesday.