Friends Service Council provides medical supplies

LALITPUR, September 2: Friends Service Council has provided various medical goods to the Mahalaxmi Municipality under the COVID-19 Response Project. 

The 23 different types of medical supplies worth Rs 550 thousand include oxygen, masks, sanitizer, hand wash, soap, weighing machine, oxymeter, BP set, face shield, nebulizer, surgical masks etc. 

Bagmati Province Assembly member Madhav Poudel on Wednesday handed over the medical assistance to Mayor rameshwor Shrestha and Deputy Mayor Nirmala Thapa. 

These health supplies were received in cooperation of the UK-based World Relief and through coordination of the Council. The Municipality will provide the goods to various health facilities in the municipality. 

The Project was launched in August and it has provided relief assistance to 225 COVID-19 affected local people including the poor, handicapped, senior citizens, those losing jobs, new mothers, expectant mothers and single women. Each family was provided with foodstuff to last for a month, Council's president Surya Bahadur Thapa said.