Canada provides medical supplies including 27 ventilators

Dr. Buddha Basnyat, Canada’s Honorary Consul to Nepal, handing over the relief material from Canada to officials of the Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, in Kathmandu on Sunday.

The Rising Nepal
28 Jun, 2021

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, June 28: A Canadian Armed Forces flight carrying COVID-19 relief material arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday.

The relief material, comprising 27 ventilators and related equipment, and over 16,000 units of PPE, was handed over to the officials from Ministry of Health and Population by Dr. Buddha Basnyat, Canada’s Honorary Consul to Nepal.

Deirdre Kent, Canada’s Acting Ambassador to Nepal, said: “Canada is proud to send additional relief material to Nepal that will help save lives of those suffering from COVID-19. Canada remains united with our friend and partner Nepal and continues to support its fight against the pandemic,” read the press release of the embassy.

This delivery of medical relief supplies is in addition to the funding of CAD $1.5 million to UNICEF to acquire oxygen concentrators and medicines, a grant of CAD $1 million to the Nepal Red Cross Society to support the people of Nepal in their fight against COVID-19, and CAD $50,000 to the ASK Foundation of Nepal in support of its work in providing tele-medicine services to COVID-19 patients, said the embassy in the press release.