Nepal

China provides medical supplies

KathmanduPati June 01, 2021

KATHMANDU – The government of the People’s Republic of China has today provided oxygen cylinders to facilitate the treatment of COVID-19 patients in Nepal.

One thousand five hundred oxygen cylinders and 527 thousand 500 N-95 masks have arrived at the Customs Office at Timure from China, said Ram Prasad Regmi, the Chief Customs Officer at the Rasuwa Customs Office, Timure.

The medical supplies are meant for the Department of Health Services. Regmi said the supplies are in the process of checking and the consignment would be taken to Kathmandu from Timure today.