DPM Pokharel holds discussion on importing COVID-19 vaccines

Kathmandu - Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokharel today held a discussion with various ministers, Chief Secretary and secretaries on importing COVID-19 vaccines. The meeting focused on the government's decision and the progress on providing the medicine to the people for free, it has been said. The Ministers for Home, Finance, Foreign Affairs, General Administration and Federal Affairs, Health and Population and Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the Chief Secretary and secretaries attended the meeting.

"The discussion centered on providing the vaccines to the people on time. Except that, we had a talk on the implementation of some decisions," said DPM Pokharel, also coordinator of the directive committee of the COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC). The meeting also decided to make public expenditure details of the Covid Fund and information about work related to controlling the infection.

Likewise, the meeting focused on appointing doctors and health workers on a contract basis to be deployed at transits with neighbouring countries amid the infection and on practical difficulties surfaced on allowances provided to health workers and security personnel deployed to prevent and control the virus, said DPM Pokharel's press coordinator Lokendra KC.