Bhaktapur, April 14:   The Madhyapur Thimi Municipality has made completed all preparations for the treatment of COVID-19 infected patients.    

The Municipality has developed the Nepal-Korea Friendship Hospital as a dedicated hospital for the treatment of COVID-19 positive cases.

Organizing a press meet here today, Mayor Madan Sundar Shrestha shared that the municipality has completed the tracing of all people recently coming from foreign countries in every ward of the municipality.    

It collected the swab of 53 people in the municipality and lab report of all of them is found negative. He added that of the 65 who returned recently from abroad, 53 underwent a test for COVID-19 while 12 left for their village home.    

He added that the lab equipment, isolation wards, ambulances and human resources are kept in a ready position in the hospital.

The hospital has 10-bed sophisticated isolation ward, quarantine with the capacity of keeping 20 persons, one dedicated ambulance, x-ray machines, two ventilators, 100-sets of PPE among other required medical stuffs for the treatment of Corona virus infected people.    

Mayor Shrestha added that the municipality has established a 50 million rupees emergency fund to combat COVID-19.