Kathmandu, 5 October: Japan has provided six ambulances to support Nepal to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ambassador Kikuta Yutaka attended the hand-over ceremony on Sunday with State Minister of Health and Population Umesh Shrestha at the Nepal Ambulance Service in Kathmandu.
On the occasion of the hand-over ceremony, Ambassador Kikuta expressed his pleasure in providing six ambulances from Japan to Nepal.
The ambulances are 4WD type vehicles manufactured in Japan by well-known
Japanese automobile company NISSAN. These ambulances, equipped with a stretcher, an oxygen cylinder and an emergency medical box, can serve as mobile hospitals to manage emergency care and are capable of running on a rough road, transporting COVID[1]19 and other patients to hospitals even in a mountainous area in Nepal.
Japan has donated medical equipment including high-concentration oxygen generators to hospitals throughout Nepal and advanced medical care equipment such as MRI machines to eight public advanced hospitals to strengthen the health sector of the country.
1.6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were provided in August, and Cold Chain assistance for the last one-mile distribution of vaccine is coming. Japan has been implementing comprehensive support to the health sector of Nepal, and the donation of six ambulances is a part of such multi-layered cooperation.
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