DHADING, JUNE 28

Dhading Hospital has received ventilators and equipment required for providing services, from the Rotary Club.

The club has provided ventilators worth Rs 650,000 to the hospital.

Rotary Club Dhading and Rotary Club Narayangadh, through the financial assistance of Rotary Club Honolulu Sunset (USA), extended their support to the hospital by means of providing them with the ventilators, Intensive Care Unit related equipment and other necessary medical equipment under their global grant project.

28 different types of equipment were handed over to the hospital administration on Saturday.

The support includes ventilator one unit, ICU bed three units, 5 Parametre Cardiac Monitor four units, AED with deflator one unit, washing machine 19 kgs one unit, water filter machine one set, sodium, potassium, Laboratory analyser one unit, Electrocardiography machine, Deep vein thrombosis Pump one unit, infusion pump three unit, Room Air Filtration machine six units PT/INR machine one unit, media trolley two units and automated hand sanitiser one-one unit.

Chair of the Hospital Management Committee, Mahendra Dhamala shared that the equipment will be of great help in treating patients.

Recently, Dhading Hospital has established its own oxygen plant and mini plant and with the oxygen concentrator, it has become self-reliant in fulfilling the need for medical oxygen.

However, to use the ventilator, the hospital needs an anesthesiologist and a physician urgently. It has already initiated process to make the recruitment by requesting Ministry of Health and Population and Ministry of Social Development of the province.